"The very rich and the very social are,……" — Edna Ferber

"The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy."

— Edna Ferber

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39 Quotes by Edna Ferber

Edna Ferber has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have…
America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful,…
It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks…
Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to…
I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment,…
I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is…
A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.
Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it…
But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.

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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the… — Aristotle
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the… — Saint Augustine
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants;… — Teresa of Avila
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. — Francis Bacon
Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out… — Russell Baker
Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is… — Abu Bakr
I still think I'm like the poor girl from Colorado who worked three jobs to buy a car. That's still… — Amy Adams
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. — Honore de Balzac
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while… — Honore de Balzac
I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health… — Bob Barker

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