All Peter York Quotes
- Sloanes aren't cafe society or NYLON hedge-funders with million-pound bonuses, or London Eurotrash wearing upgraded style anglais. Ann Barr's and my original picture of them… Attitude
- I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and signals of the sort that cult studies people study;… Bother
- Pop managers are fixed in the dramatic stock character repertoire too, ever since the first British pop film musical, Wolf Mankowitz's 'Expresso Bongo' of 1959,… Bongo
- Haagen-Dazs (a clever Scandi-sounding name invented by Americans in 1961) was bought for its Euro-sounding sophistication by the kind of Americans who first bought those… All
- Have you got a Beemer, an Audi, a Saab or a Volvo that replaced a Ford, Vauxhall, Rover or Nissan? Many Brits have. Your first… Audi
- I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a '70s cop movie… Area
- I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer… Actor
- I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists… Basic
- I often find myself worrying about celebrities. It's an entirely caring thing; it's not like the people who commission those photographs with cruel arrows to… Arrows
- If you've done a bit of journalism, everyone assumes you must be moving into PR. We're absolutely not becoming a PR agency and we're not… Absolutely
- Imagine a State occasion where the Queen is wearing trainers with her tiara because she thinks it will make people like her better, more folksy.… Appeared
- In Britain, eponymous lifestyle branding as we know it started in the late 1960s, with two fascinating families - the Conrans and the Ashleys -… Branding
- In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't cut it since… Achieve
- In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would make… Ads
- In the future, people will blame the Eighties for all societal ills in the same way that people have previously blamed the Sixties. The various… All
- It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision,… Anguish
- Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures… Ancient
- Marmite - like that other little black-jar job, Bovril - is so much a Mark 1 staple-of-Empire brand, so much part of the Edwardian world… Advertising
- Men turn to formal wear when they want a new job or when they think their current one is in danger. They try to present… Current
- My friends adore 'TOWIE' - the TV documentary series, 'The Only Way is Essex.' They like it, I'm afraid, for the most unworthy of reasons:… Adore
- Nobody knows anything. I deal with people in all walks of life, some of whom should have some idea of what they're doing. And they're… All
- People are fretful about lifestyle retailing because the idea that anyone's immortal soul and deepest longings can be quite so readily anticipated and consolidated with… Anticipated
- Prince William looks good in uniform and Man-at-Hackett black and white tie (he has grown up wearing it constantly); less certain in his suits, which… Archaic
- Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine… All
- Selling scent is a key job for celebrities. At any one time, there'll be hundreds of them at it, going on the world's talk shows,… Any