Socialite

Quotes & Thinkers in Socialite

32 thinkers

Sort:

Notable Thinkers

32 of 32

🇺🇸Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Politics

1929–1994

"I held his hand all the time the priest was saying extreme unction."

"Everyone in the family wears fur except me. … Kim wore fur last night. I told her you cannot wear fur. It's embarrassing."

"I think cooking completes you as a woman. … I woke up one morning and said, I can't do this to myself anymore. I didn't feel good. I was constipated all the time. … I used to live to eat. Now I eat to live."

"Boyfriends have to understad my needs. I shower four times a day."

1 quotes

🇺🇸Ghislaine_Maxwell

b. 1961

"Virginia is an absolute liar and everything she has said is a lie. Therefore, based on those lies I cannot speculate on what anybody else did or didn’t do … everything she said is false."

32 quotes

🇺🇸William Randolph Hearst

Politics

1863–1951

"Guide to the William Randolph Hearst Papers at The Bancroft Library"

"I have lost my beloved mother, and New York and the world have lost a great lady. She was one of a kind in every way. Her tombstone will be inscribed with the words she specifically asked for: 'I had a wonderful life.'"

"What's Wal-mart? Do they sell Walls and stuff?"

"You know what they say - the sweetest word in the English language is revenge."

"How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed."

"Ferdinand had foresight and unbelievable luck. His success actually bordered on fiction."

31 quotes

🇺🇸Florence Foster Jenkins

Music

1868–1944

"People may say I can't sing, but no one can ever say I didn't sing."

"I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I would burst into a fit of weeping if the kettle was not facing due east."

54 quotes

🇺🇸Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Politics

1884–1980

"I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development."

"More Than Friends, Less Than Lovers" by William F. Buckley Jr; a New York Times book review of The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper.William F. Buckley Jr"

"You must realize that many Lebanese are not at ease either with Syrian policy in Lebanon or with the presence of Syrian troops in our country."

"A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self — in the mirror of some woman's eyes."

"Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours."

"Are we just supposed to throw away our relationship with Saudi Arabia because they murdered a journalist?"

6 quotes

🇺🇸Elizabeth Willing Powel

Politics

1743–1830

"The Power Broker and the King Maker: The Life of Elizabeth Willing Powel with Samantha Snyder , from the series Conversations at the Washington Library"

"I think that once you’ve seen the ways in which lots of these animals are killed and how brutal and grotesque and unnecessary it is, I think that people would automatically choose not to wear fur."

"In countries like ours, women enter politics in mourning clothes."

"I want to find a job to be proud of. One of those jobs you're standing up to at four in the morning because you don't feel like quitting."

"A man with money will get you everything, but you will pay for it."

"In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out."

"Texture and pattern should function as a surprise."

"I think it would not work. I would be very jealous. It would be better if it was just sex."

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."

"To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader."

"Oh my god. I just hung around with an unpretty person. Excuse me while I go home to scrub myself with expensive body wash and a pink loofah, to rid myself of the unpretty germs."

"The real Edie is where the action is. Fast cars, fast horses, and people doing things!"

43 quotes

Also explore

🏺 Ancient →🏛️ Classical →⚔️ Medieval →🎨 Renaissance →