Women of Means Quotes

“They also prove that at times the grander the house, the greater the grief.”
― Marlene Wagman-Geller, Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls

“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.”
― Marlene Wagman-Geller, Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls

“grandfather’s celluloid alter ego, Charles Foster Kane, whose dying word lay behind his mystery and can represent his granddaughter’s own: “Rosebud.”
― Marlene Wagman-Geller, Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls

“Orwellian Room 101”
― Marlene Wagman-Geller, Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls

“Truth is the daughter of time.”
― Marlene Wagman-Geller, Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls

“Never let even a friendly wolf into the chicken coop. Sooner or later, it will get hungry.”
― Marlene Wagman-Geller, Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls

“pattern of many family dynasties: the first generation builds, the second consolidates, and the third destroys.”
― Marlene Wagman-Geller, Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls

“I would rather cry in a Rolls than be happy on a bicycle.”
― Marlene Wagman-Geller, Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls

“On a symbolic level, the double G insignia represented greed and grief. Into”
― Marlene Wagman-Geller, Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls

“When troubles come, they come not in single spies / But in battalions.”
― Marlene Wagman-Geller, Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls

“Whom the Gods wish to punish, they first make happy.”
― Marlene Wagman-Geller, Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls

“I’m helpless like a rich man’s son,”
― Marlene Wagman-Geller, Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls

“Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.”
― Marlene Wagman-Geller, Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls

“life’s vicissitudes in the words of Hafiz, a celebrated Persian poet: “Pay no heed to the wounding thorns.”
― Marlene Wagman-Geller, Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls

“The seeds you plant and love never perish.”
― Marlene Wagman-Geller, Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls

“Casey suffered from idleness and its accompanying specter of boredom,”
― Marlene Wagman-Geller, Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls

“Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.”
― Marlene Wagman-Geller, Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls

“palazzo”
― Marlene Wagman-Geller, Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls

“were flagrant, and eventually desperate, but never deliberate.”
― Marlene Wagman-Geller, Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls

“self”
― Marlene Wagman-Geller, Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls