Quotes About Exclusivity

Within each of these categories, the principle was the same: rarity and beauty increased value.

There is a time and place for being in the limelight. As far as being away from the spotlight, well, a certain air of exclusivity is always good.

The trouble with wide-open families was, there was something very narrow about their attitude to not-open families.

The mistake that's so easy to make is to get greedy as you choose your hive, to say, "this product is for everyone" or "anyone can benefit from this idea." Well, there are seven billion people on the planet, so it's unlikely your comment is correct; even if it is, there's little chance that a virus would spread across a hive that big.

Tiffany's blue box is a slogan without words. It stands for elegance and packaging and quality and "price is no object.

At the heart of the exclusive organization is a simple truth: every member is "people like us." Sign up for that and you gain status. Walk away and you lose it.

Elitism thus had a dark side, a fascination with noble death, with death not for low material ends—that was for the multitude and the merchants—but for fame, even immortality.

I think there's a lot to be learned from pop culture. But at the same time I see the dangers of using it in an exclusive way to construct meaning in your life.

Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.

the kind of place that thrived on understatement and quiet privilege.

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What I like about limousines is they have tinted windows, so no-one can see if you're snogging in the back seat.

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

I guess the Reagan era is defined as the 'I want it all for me, and screw everybody else' era.

My Miu Miu gown at the Golden Globes was the first time I had anything custom-made for me.

I'm a Gucci girl all the way.

Gold and diamonds are nice, but clean, crisp, controlled water has long been the preeminent hallmark of the rich.

The next eleven floors held a single apartment per floor and belonged to the principals of hedge funds and private equity firms and one Argentine model and her soccer player boyfriend who spent no more than a week out of the year in New York.

Maybe there really only was one singular white man staring down at the world from his official boots and his official vehicle and his official sunglasses hanging high over his official smirk.

I own an island. Because when you have a chance to own an island, you just do.)

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.

I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.

In this stupid world most people never consider that a thing is good to be done unless it is done by their own set.