Bonfire of the Vanderbilts Quotes

“The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber What”
― Gerald Everett Jones, Bonfire of the Vanderbilts: A Novel

“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t even there. — George Santanaya As”
― Gerald Everett Jones, Bonfire of the Vanderbilts: A Novel

“To say that you will exert your best efforts is little more than to say you will try. But you must begin to understand that — for you, forward of this moment — you do not have the luxury of merely trying at anything you undertake, and failure is not an option.” “But”
― Gerald Everett Jones, Bonfire of the Vanderbilts: A Novel

“We could take at face value that we are elect because we have such good fortune already. And then we could proceed to act like spendthrifts because life is short and we don’t fear the consequences.”
― Gerald Everett Jones, Bonfire of the Vanderbilts: A Novel

“The wealth we have is not ours forever. It is in our custody while we have breath and hands to do the Lord’s work. And we must honor God by honoring our custodial responsibilities.”
― Gerald Everett Jones, Bonfire of the Vanderbilts: A Novel

“The aristocrats on both sides of the Atlantic, whether from new or old wealth, have the manners and the morals of small-town gossips. And”
― Gerald Everett Jones, Bonfire of the Vanderbilts: A Novel

“For all their worshipful attention to Americans and American machinery, the French didn’t like them much.”
― Gerald Everett Jones, Bonfire of the Vanderbilts: A Novel

“Art endures long after the tyrants who pay for it are dust. He”
― Gerald Everett Jones, Bonfire of the Vanderbilts: A Novel