Top 58 Onassis Quotes
#1. The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev.
Nikita Khrushchev
#2. Aristotle Onassis rescued me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shadows. He brought me into a world where one could find both happiness and love. We lived through many beautiful experiences together which cannot be forgotten, and for which I will be eternally grateful.
Jackie Kennedy
#3. I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis.
Pierre Salinger
#4. As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.'
Rupert Everett
#5. I knew who Jackie Kennedy was in terms of being the wife of JFK and being a clothes horse, and I knew that she later married Onassis, but I had a very, very vague idea of who he was.
Lydia Leonard
#6. You think when Jesus comes back, he really wants to see a cross? That's like going up to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendant on.
Bill Hicks
#7. Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn't go to sleep at night-he talks and talks.
Pierre Salinger
#8. I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though most girls have because she exists as a fashion icon.
Lydia Leonard
#9. Greek shipowners like to boast, 'I bought ships at the bottom of the market, and now they're worth ten times as much.' It goes back to the days of Onassis and Niarchos competing with each other over who had the biggest fleet, the biggest yacht and the most famous girlfriend.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
#10. To be a queen , do you have to rule a country or marry a king? Not necessarily---there are other ways to be considered royal today. For example, take Elizabeth Taylor or Jacqueline Onassis. Would you dare to call either of these grand dames less than regal?
Kris Waldherr
#11. There's an image that some of us have of Jackie Onassis, stepping out in the rain, and Maurice Tempelsman is holding her umbrella. We want that man. We want the man to be the concierge and the masseur and the travel booker.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#12. For casual wear, I'm obsessed with Onassis in Soho. Hip-preppy and well priced.
Max Von Essen
#13. I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
J. Paul Getty
#14. First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.
Maria Callas
#15. Famous INFPs include Isabel Myers (creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator), St. John the disciple, Carl Rogers, Princess Diana, George Orwell, Audrey Hepburn, Fred Rogers, A.A. Milne, Helen Keller, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Julia Roberts, and William Shakespeare.
Molly Owens
#16. During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
J. Paul Getty
#17. First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I've lost Onassis.
Maria Callas
#18. There is no such thing as a good paparazzo. A good paparazzo, that's a paparazzo who has had his camera broken. In fact, they are bandits, thieves of photography. (Statement after photographs were published showing Jackie Onassis sunbathing nude.)
Federico Fellini
#19. I started to work at the Colony in March 1958. I remember my first day because the telephone started to ring, and it was Sinatra, three for lunch, his usual table; Onassis, two for lunch, usual table; the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Leland Hayward, Truman Capote, all wanting their usual tables.
Sirio Maccioni
#21. To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
Aristotle Onassis
#22. Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it ... All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
#23. After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
Aristotle Onassis
#25. Since I am known as a 'rich' person, I feel I have to tip at least $5 each time I check my coat. On top of that, I would have to wear a very expensive coat, and it would have to be insured. Added up, without a topcoat I save over $20,000 a year.
Aristotle Onassis
#26. If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Aristotle Onassis
#28. I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.
Aristotle Onassis
#29. Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.
Aristotle Onassis
#32. You are not truly wealthy unless you earn money while you are sleeping
Aristotle Onassis
#36. Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of my mind at times. Wouldn't God understand that I just want to be with him?
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
#37. On a potential husband, All I ask is someone with a little imagination, but they are hard to find.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
#39. Don't sleep too much. If you sleep three hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.
Aristotle Onassis
#41. Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just watch television, which will be their only frame of reference.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
#42. In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies.
Aristotle Onassis
#44. I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other.
Aristotle Onassis
#45. Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.
Aristotle Onassis
#46. We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
Aristotle Onassis
#49. Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive.
Aristotle Onassis
#50. He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights ... it had to be some silly little Communist.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
#53. I've just been a machine for making money. I seem to have spent my life in a golden tunnel looking for the outlet which would lead to happiness. But the tunnel kept going on. After my death there will be nothing left.
Aristotle Onassis
#54. It's during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle Onassis
#55. To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you only nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big.
Aristotle Onassis
#57. The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onassis
#58. Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
