China Rich Girlfriend Quotes

“People are messy. Life gets messy. Things are not always going to work out perfectly just because you want them to.”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“I know the average outfit in your wardrobe costs more than a semester of tuition at Princeton, but it makes you look like a community college during summertime: NO CLASS.”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“What do you mean, 'boundaries?' You came out of my vagina. What kind of boundaries do we have?”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“I don’t understand. How can a credit card ever be rejected? It’s not like it’s a kidney!” Colette laughed.”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“Beauty fades, but wit will keep you on the invitation lists to all the most exclusive parties.”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“Everyone claims to be a billionaire these days. But you’re not really a billionaire until you spend your billions. —OVERHEARD AT THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“The larger the diamonds, the older the wife, the more the mistress.”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“Behind every fortune lies a great crime. —HONORÉ DE BALZAC”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“Behind every fortune lies a great crime.”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“Michael, don’t you know by now that my grandmother and Uncle Alfred are the largest private shareholders of Singapore Press Holdings? We’re not going to be in the papers. We’re never going to be in the papers.”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“I tell you, this is what’s wrong with the world. People lying about everything.”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“I don’t understand. How can a credit card ever be rejected? It’s not like it’s a kidney!”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“now you have the body shape considered ideal to the women you seek to cultivate—delicately emaciated, with just a hint of a well-managed eating disorder.”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“You’re an economist—don’t you know what HENRY stands for?” I racked my brains, but I still didn’t have a clue. Perrineum finally spat it out: “High Earners, Not Rich Yet.”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“It’s like all my patients these days—I never know whether the kid in my dental chair is homeless or owns Google,” Ray said gruffly.”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“St. Germain elderflower liqueur, gin, and white Lillet mixed with grapefruit juice create this classic effervescent aperitif. Chin-chin!”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“This little girl needs to be raised properly—by a team of sensible Cantonese nannies, not interfering parents!”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“In large families the whole affair would often involve complicated Excel flow charts,”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“Hainanese chicken rice, which could arguably be considered the national dish of Singapore. (And yes, Eleanor is ready for foodie bloggers to start attacking her restaurant choice. She chose Wee Nam Kee specifically because the United Square location is only five minutes from the Bao condo, and parking there is $2.00 after 6:00 p.m. If she took him to Chatterbox, which she personally prefers, parking at Mandarin Hotel would have been a nightmare and she would have had to valet her Jaguar for $15. Which she would RATHER DIE than do.)”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“I promise I will never stop sending you letters of love, Astrid. Until my dying day.”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“Just you, me, and our chosen family. No one else matters.”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“Snobs by Julian Fellowes The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee People Like Us by Dominick Dunne The Power of Style by Annette Tapert and Diana Edkins (this is out of print; I will lend you my copy) Pride and Avarice by Nicholas Coleridge The Soong Dynasty by Sterling Seagrave Freedom by Jonathan Franzen D. V. by Diana Vreeland A Princess Remembers: The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur by Gayatri Devi Jane Austen—complete works beginning with Pride and Prejudice Edith Wharton—The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers, The House of Mirth (must be read in strict order—you will understand why when you finish the last one) Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Anthony Trollope—all the books in the Palliser series, beginning with Can You Forgive Her?”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“The Holy Trinity are Four Seasons for the roast duck, Mandarin Kitchen for the aforementioned lobster noodles, and Royal China for the dim sum.”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“I hope you told her that the most romantic thing that happened was watching Alistair projectile vomit out the car window after stuffing down too many In-N-Out burgers.”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“the older she gets, the more she seems to be turning into an obsessive tightwad.”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“Shanghai and Beijing society would come to accept her, especially if she carries a different handbag.”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“*1 Literally translated as “meat bone tea,” this is not the name of a summer event on Fire Island but rather a popular Singaporean soup that consists of melt-in-your-mouth pork ribs simmered for many hours in an intoxicatingly complex broth of herbs and spices.”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“learn to become a scintillating conversationalist. Beauty fades, but wit will keep you on the invitation lists to all the most exclusive parties.”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“You’re my one and only gaofushuai,”*”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend