Nouveaux Quotes

#1. What reader or dreamer doesn't imagine the romantic life of a writer, who lingers between the desk and the fridge in the morning and in the evening attends cocktail parties thrown by nouveaux riches and the society ladies who hardly ever have the time to read?

Rawi Hage

#2. Try as he might, Gatsby remains outside the inner sanctum and nothing he can do will allow him full access. He will never be accepted by anyone but the nouveaux riches.

Kate Maurer

#3. There are times when born hollandaise heads, as well as nouveaux turbot freaks and recherche escargotphiles alike crave the saignet abundance of a New York steak.

Gael Greene

#4. I'm trying to use Palestine as a microcosm of the world, but maybe the world is a microcosm of Palestine. We're living in a moment that has lost attachment to the ideology behind boundaries.

Elia Suleiman

#5. Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.

Cassandra Clare

#6. Talking about your home town is like talking about your own mother.

Maureen Daly

#7. If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

Jane Austen

#8. What did the soup say to the tea plate?
"You're too shallow for me. I like deep dish to dip right into!" I still keep my British humour in good taste. No room for egos or rumours.

Ana Claudia Antunes