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Quotes About Exclusivity

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves
~ Sigmund Freud
When any choice is pursued to an extreme, it penalizes itself, in that it exposes the individual to the dangers accompanying any one exclusive life-interest which may always prove inadequate.
~ Sigmund Freud
Science is a monopoly, not because public education is badly organized, but by its very nature; non-scientists have access only to the results, not to the methods, that is to say they can only believe, not assimilate.
~ Simone Weil
He regarded spats, walking sticks, caviar, titles, tea-drinking, poetry not daily syndicated in newspapers, and all foreigners, possibly excepting the British, as degenerate.
~ Sinclair Lewis
But, come on, even the waiting list for that new Prada bag was only a year. No school can be more exclusive than a limited-edition Prada bag, surely?
~ Sophie Kinsella
Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.
~ Honore de Balzac
The root meaning of the Old Testament word for holiness is the idea of being separate—different and separated from the ordinary. And when applied to God, this separateness implies that he is in a class by himself. He is like a one-of-a-kind diamond, supremely valuable. We can use the word transcendent for this kind of divine separateness. He is so uniquely separate that he transcends all other reality. He is above it and more valuable than all of it.
~ John Piper
One woman, a Harvard-educated lawyer, learned to carry a Bally bag when going to certain exclusive shops. Like a sorceress warding off evil with a wand, she would hold the bag in front of her to rebuff racial assumptions, in the hope that the clerk would take it as proof that she could be trusted to enter.
~ Ellis Cose
It was a real party of swells.
~ Elvis Costello
Do you love me with an all-consuming devotion that rules out all other loves?
~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
~ barry dave ii
The rich - they just live in another realm, really.
~ John Updike
I'm not invited. I'm not on the A list, haven't been on it in 20 years and my feet have never trod its red fluffy carpets.
~ Nick Mancuso
My clothes are for the international jet set. They are very much for the red carpet.
~ Giambattista Valli
You don't want money to make you a social freak where you can only hang out with rich people.
~ Graham Norton
I'm not a Bal Harbour Shops kind of guy.
~ Bobby Berk
Everyone hates the best clubs, it is as simple as that.
~ Phil Jones
I built the most exclusive and decadent high-profile club for powerful men.
~ Molly Bloom
For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.
~ Warren Beatty
I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
~ Madchen Amick
The following are the principal characteristics of nationalist thought: Obsession. As nearly as possible, no nationalist ever thinks, talks, or writes about anything except the superiority of his own power unit.
~ George Orwell
Jetsetting is now not the privilege of the elite so much as a veritiginous mundanity for a permanently dispossessed global workforce.
~ Mark Fisher
When Zaytoven and Future are working together, then Future's not working on no other tracks, and Zaytoven's not making no beats for nobody but Future.
~ Zaytoven
The more expensive and/or exclusive a sport, the whiter it tends to be: the fact almost has the force of a law. That is the main reason why the Rugby World Cup, the Pacific islands excepted, was so desperately white, the Springboks included.
~ Martin Jacques