Quotes About Prestige

You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody.

You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It's how you're measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it's at.

We have 21 races in the year and Monaco is the one that you want to win.

Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.

The building was built to appeal to snobs

In the Clark apartment doorknobs and plates and hinges were overlaid with sterling silver.) There were inlaid marble floors, wrought-iron staircases, walls wainscoted in rare marbles and choice hardwoods, bronze lamp fixtures and railings in the elevator lobbies.

James Hazen Hyde gave his $200,000 ball at Sherry's, at which the ballroom was transformed into a replica of the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.

No. 965 Fifth Avenue was a considerably more tasteful house than the old "house full of horrors" at 932.

She and her late husband, Leander Cross, a prominent surgeon of the darker nation, were, in my childhood, perhaps the leading host of the Gold Coast party circuit, a circuit my parents traveled often, because it was, in those days, what one did: glittering dinner at one house on the Friday, champagne brunch at another on the Sunday, caterers, cooks, even temporary butlers at the ready as the best of black Washington charged about in mad imitation of white people's foolishness.

To be able to hold all four majors - the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, PGA - all concurrently I think is the Grand Slam. But a lot of people have a different opinions on that. People think you have to win it in the same calendar year.

The Masters, while it has slowly gained equal importance as a major, isn't really the championship of anything.

I went to a really smart school where all the kids go to the Ivy Leagues.

My favorite snack is caviar.

Food is the only snobbery allowed. Imagine pulling up in your expensive car alongside somebody at the lights with a cheap car and saying, 'Is that all you've got?' But people do it with food.

My goal is: I'm not trying to be snobby, but my clothes are not for everyone, not for every Hollywood celebrity. There is a designer for everyone, and a celebrity for every designer.

To be able to say, 'I'm going to be Snow White' - it's crazy. It's an honor.

Harvard was very important to me and has been very important to so many people for so many years.

I don't love the word luxury because it feels Bougy to me.

In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.

BMW." He smiles. "Little black beamer.

The Jefferson is such a dignified hotel / There is no such thing.

And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions.

Royalty pollutes people's minds, boy. honest men start bowing and bobbing just because someone's granddad was a bigger murdering bastard than theirs was.

Make ourselves attractive to students? said the Archchancellor. Mr Stibbons, the whole idea of a university is that it should be hard to get into.