Home / Quotes / Quote by Peter York

Quote by Peter York

“London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.”

Quote by Peter York

Author

Peter York, born in 1943, is an accomplished author whose works span various genres, including literature, history, and social commentary. York's writing is renowned for its profound thought and unique perspective, which has had a significant impact on contemporary literature. more

You May Also Like

“One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.”

Should Pleasure Mistake Source Same Mistakes Making The Same Mistakes

Author:Peter York

“Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.”

People Ends Conflict Smart Branding Mobile Smart People Strands

Author:Peter York

“There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.”

Knows Style Policy Design Interiors Euro Biscuits

Author:Peter York

“There's no Peter York Foundation, and you're no one without one.”

Foundation Peter

Author:Peter York

“All I'm saying is that Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal didn't invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a long time.”

Long Has Beens Bigs Names Long Time Branding Eighty Reassuring Louis Vuitton

Author:Peter York

“Brands are useful ways of short-handing practically anything - look at the way Tom Wolfe first used brand name lists to sharpen up a character and a situation. Look at the most brand-referenced novel, Bret Easton Ellis's 'Glamorama.”

Way Firsts Looks Character Used Names Situation Novel Lists Brands Toms Brand Names

Author:Peter York

“By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been in competition with hair, and hair had won. Thirty years before that, Brits of all classes and ages wore hats all the time.”

World Years Real Age Class Hair Competition Thirty Hats Funeral Civilians Thirty Years Brits

Author:Peter York

“The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror.”

Guy Republican Mirrors Democrat Admiring

Author:Kinky Friedman

“By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.”

“Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worry for them. A girl I knew developed X-ray eyes for celebrity sorrows. She taught me to read the subtext of the down-market celebrity interview, she knew all the Hollywood codes, and followed the deep backgrounds.”

Helping Eye Girl Poverty Worry Taught Sorrow Hollywood Backgrounds Code Interviews Britain Rays Scandal Blair Subtext

Author:Peter York