Quotes About Nouveau Riche

#1. There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

Gore Vidal

#2. We must stop calling our drug barons and "419s" (fraudsters) nouveau riche, big shots or those who have made it.

Sunday Adelaja

#3. A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things.

Elsa Peretti

#4. The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.

Daniel S. Greenberg

#5. Thank you for making me nouveau riche.

Jerry Della Femina

#6. Domenico had that 'look-at-me I've-got-money' attitude about him. A proper nouveau riche. In combination with his pig-like table manners at home, it was a sight to behold.

K.A. Merikan

#7. Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

Abraham Lincoln

#8. They were new money, without a doubt: so new it shrieked. Their clothes looked as it they'd covered themselves in glue, then rolled around in hundred-dollar bills.

Margaret Atwood

#9. Just to check she's not going out." "Going

David Walliams

#10. A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.

Heather O'Neill

#11. Ah, let us kiss each other's eyes,/And laugh our love away.

William Butler Yeats

#12. Living Word. God's word is not a dead letter. The life of His nature in His word also makes me live when I receive it and act on it with faith.

Louis McCall

#13. If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

Athol Fugard

#14. Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.

William Bennett

#15. 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

#16. God gives out good gifts of wisdom, talent, beauty, and skill 'graciously'
that is, in a completely unmerited way. He casts them across all humanity, regardless of religious conviction, race, gender, or any other attribute to enrich, brighten, and preserve the world.

Timothy Keller

#17. Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.

Nicole Kidman

#18. Raffe holds me a second longer than necessary before he puts me down. And then it takes me a second longer than necessary to slide my arms away from his neck.

Susan Ee