Nouveau Riche Quotes

• Thank you for making me nouveau riche.

  Jerry Della Femina

  Thank You

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

  Gore Vidal

  Mean, Literature, Said

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• I have this table in my new house. They put this table in without asking. It was some weird nouveau riche marble table, and I hated it. But it was literally so heavy that it took a crane to move it. We would try to set up different things around it, but it never really worked. I realized that table was my ego. No matter what you put around it, under it, no matter who photographed it, the douchebaggery would always come through.

  Kanye West

  Moving, House, Ego

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• The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

  Salvador Dali

  Beauty, Art, Architecture

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• 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

  Community, Ascent, Poverty

  Daniel S. Greenberg (1999). “The Politics of Pure Science”, p.288, University of Chicago Press

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• I grew up in the 1920s and 1930s in a nouveau riche world, where money was spent wildly, and I'm still living in one!... The private schools are all jammed with long waiting lists; the clubs -- all the old clubs -- are jammed with long waiting lists today; the harbors are clogged with yachts; there has never been a more material society than the one we live in today.... Where is this 'vanished world' they talk about? I don't think the critics have looked out the window!

  Louis Auchincloss

  School, Thinking, Long

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• It seems hard for the American people to believe that anything could be more exciting than the times themselves. What we read daily and view on the TV has thrust imagined forms into the shadow. We are staggeringly rich in facts, in things, and perhaps, like the nouveau riche of other ages, we want our wealth faithfully reproduced by the artist.

  Saul Bellow

  Believe, Artist, Views

  Saul Bellow (2016). “It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future”, p.62, Odyssey Editions

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