When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.
Even though I felt, at times, 'My goodness, you're among the upper echelon,' there is still a huge void there. A huge void. It is about self-esteem. That's a thing that has always been a real complex part of my life.
It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures.
She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.
Long ago, I realized that my only talent - aside from the rugged good looks, of course, and the strange power I hold over elderly women - can be reduced to a single word: doggedness.
Well, we can't all be Terry Bradshaw.
The substitute for knowledge is money.
Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.
I am not a brave man... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above.
If you have millions and millions of dollars, you're living in a totally different world. You don't feel it anymore and you've got to feel it.
A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.
Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
I don't see myself in an ivory tower.
I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
Technically, I suppose I was following all the right behavior patterns of a trustafarian.
Dialect words—those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Studio 54 was the place you could never get into. Of course, the place you can't get into is the place everyone is trying to get into.
You never ever expect to win a Bafta. It's unreachable for people like me.
Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.
Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist.
those who use the word 'lifestyle' are rarely in possession of either.
I don't hang out with the Hollywood cool people. I'm not out trying to make friends with people because they're famous.
