Sumptuary Law Quotes

#1. Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

Moliere

#2. Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.

John Hays Hammond

#3. I don't need to buy books. I've got the whole of the library at the New School, as well as my iPad. Why do people still buy books? They just take up space.

Deborah Meyler

#4. Why aren't you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?

Daniel Clowes

#5. Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

Ottessa Moshfegh

#6. Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

Prince Charles

#7. It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#8. Former Enron founder Ken Lay and CEO Jeffrey Skilling found guilty in the Enron case. Ken Lay is so guilty I'm surprised people aren't calling him Congressman Ken Lay. Wait 'till these guys find out in prison that insider trading has a whole new meaning.

Jay Leno

#9. When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

Tom Ford

#10. If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.

George MacDonald

#11. It was slushy snow," I clarified.
"Very slushy," Adrian confirmed.

Temple West