Nouveaux Riches 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. To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

John Burroughs

#4. Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.

Alexander Pope

#5. I do what I can, when I can, cuz when I can't, then I can't.

Paula Ann Lujan Quinene

#6. Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?

Zadie Smith

#7. My father passed away before he saw me perform. I can't help but wonder what he would think of all this. I go to a job in full makeup.

Ty Burrell