The Betsy Quotes

“I think I’ll be moving on tomorrow,” she said. “What for? Got anything better to do?” She shook her head. “No. But this isn’t my bag. You know that. These cars don’t make any noise.” “Someday all cars won’t make noise,” he said.”
― Harold Robbins, The Betsy

“You don’t expect me to get on line with all them rednecks, Polacks and niggers, do you? Don’t forget I was a foreman out at Chrysler.”
― Harold Robbins, The Betsy

“When I wrote The Betsy, I spent a lot of time in Detroit with the Ford family. The old man running the place had supplied me with Fords, a Mustang, that station wagon we still have…. After he read the book and I was flying home from New York the day after it was published, he made a phone call to the office on Sunset and asked for all the cars to be returned. I guess he didn’t like the book.”
― Harold Robbins, The Betsy

“But he was wrong. Mr. Ford had the one unforgivable vice. He was intolerant.”
― Harold Robbins, The Betsy