The Heiress Quotes

#1. Lord Worth: 'I think you may be quite useful to me. The heiress has a brother.'
Captain Audley: 'I am not the least interested in her brother,' objected the Captain.

Georgette Heyer

#2. La heradera del dia destruida.
(The heiress of the destroyed day.)

Pablo Neruda

#3. When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.

Mary McCarthy

#4. There is the matter of the girl, niece and heiress to the dead man. She is of great beauty," said Cadfael plainly, asserting his right to recognise and celebrate even the beauty of women, though their enjoyment he had now voluntarily forsworn,

Ellis Peters

#5. No longer was she an heiress from another world; she was the woman he had wanted to possess the moment he saw her, and she was sitting beside him, her hair cascading over his arm like a thick satin waterfall

Judith McNaught

#6. As Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent, stared at the young woman who had just barged her way into his London residence, it occurred to him that he might have tried to abduct the wrong heiress last week at Stony Cross Park.

Lisa Kleypas

#7. It is often hazardous to marry an heiress, as she is not unfrequently the last of a diseased family.

Erasmus Darwin

#8. The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without charging anyone with a crime.

Bill Dedman

#9. Not every heiress is famous. Or fun. There are a lot of boring heiresses out there.

Paris Hilton

#10. And why, exactly, was she in no danger from him? Why didn't he want her with the fervor of a thousand over-heating engines? She ought to be constantly ogled and groped, having to beat him off with her parasol, her fan, and maybe one of her walking boots.

Sherry Thomas

#11. The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.

Suzy Menkes

#12. When I see you here amidst all this, I realise that I proposed to a very small part of you. I thought I was giving you a home and a position, but here I see that I am taking you away from so much.

Daisy Goodwin

#13. It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.

Paris Hilton

#14. Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady in her own right.

Susan Holloway Scott

#15. You could hear us?" Christiana asked with horror.
"I'm sure the whole house can hear you," she said dryly. "He roars like a lion, and you squeal like a stuck pig.

Lynsay Sands

#16. Heiresses are never jilted.

George Meredith

#17. You are my heiress now. --Malaxia
I am not a witch! --Liana
St. Michel the Archangel, get down here. --Jettaret
I have wept for the living and the dead.
What good did it do them? --Alberge

Wendy Joseph

#18. Your Grace seems out of breath. I do hope you're not being chased by an overly enthusiastic heiress?" "Pack a light bag, Craven," Maximus snapped. "We're going to London to help a murderous lunatic escape from Bedlam.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#19. By 1973, John Kerry had already accused American soldiers of committing war crimes in Vietnam, thrown someone else's medals to the ground in an anti-war demonstration, and married his first heiress.

Ann Coulter

#20. I knew who I was. I was a celebrity without talent. I was an heiress. I was a whore. I was a party waiting to happen. I was an addict. I was his, and in that last definition - that I was owned by Deacon I knew my place in the chaos.

C.D. Reiss

#21. A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend

Paris Hilton

#22. You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.

Paris Hilton

#23. The Madcap Heiress, isn't that what the papers usually call her? Millions of dollars and no sense.

Vina Delmar

#24. On Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Sylvia's Lovers'.
'Philip Hepuburn worships Sylvia Robson, and finds dishonour' Sylvia Robson worships Charley Kinraid, and finds disillusionment. Charley Kinraid worships himself, and finds a career in the Royal Navy and an heiress who agrees with him.

Lucinda Elliot

#25. I'm glad I was never an heiress.

Antonia Fraser

#26. By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.

Paris Hilton

#27. I don't want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn't do anything for that.

Paris Hilton

#28. Carla Crumworthy, heiress to the Crumworthy panty-shield fortune. She had come to complain about the collagen injections that Rudy Graveline had administered to give her full, sensual lips, which is just what every rheumatoid seventy-one-year-old woman

Carl Hiaasen

#29. In such families as [Nidderdale's], when such results have been achieved, it is generally understood that matters shall be put right by an heiress. [ ... ] Rank squanders money; trade makes it;
and then trade purchases rank by re-gilding its splendour

Anthony Trollope

#30. There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.

Iris Apfel