The V.I.P.s, 1963

"Duchess of Brighton: I have two enormous pills to steady me down 

and the two pep-pills I took this morning - the pep-up pills. I'm flying already!"

"Paul Andros: Pay no attention. Drunks cry very easily. It's only the whiskey."

"Frances Andros: I know it is foolishly sentimental to want to sit next 

to the man that you are eloping with."

"Frances Andros: For most of those thirteen years I've loved him. But I don't know him."

"Marc Champselle: You? Why should you be scared of him?
Frances Andros: As a child I was scared of the dark."

"Max Buda: Not that one. That one!
Gloria Gritti: How do you know what is in my hand?
Max Buda: Because I know what is in your head.
Gloria Gritti: So, I have nothing in my head.
Max Buda: Don't quote that."

"Frances Andros: You so much want looking after.
And I so much want to look after you."

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"Frances Andros: That is what I love you for. That I can make fun of you."

"Marc Champselle: 'No' is not a word that I recognise.
Frances Andros: You've recognised it for the past three months." 

"Frances Andros: I love you for what you are. Not what you think you are."

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The V.I.P.s, 1963

The September Issue, 2009

Off voice:"Anna Wintour's office."

 

Anna Wintour: "There is something about fashion that can make people really nervous."

Tonne Goodman: "Kate, there's a bit of a crisis. Anna saw the pictures, and she doesn't want Chanel or Hilary. Okay. Bye."

Grace Coddington: "She's killed half of it." 

Anna Wintour: "There is always a way to wear fur. Personally I have it on my back!"

 

Grace Coddington: "I wonder if Anna would like this one. It's black. That's true. I'd get fired for that."

Grace Coddington: "Don't be too nice, not even to me, because you'll lose. You have to beat your way through." 

Anna Wintour: "Well, this week it has been very cold that's all I can say." 

Grace Coddington:  "And I love to talk money in front of you guys with Anna...  'cause it drives her crazy. It's a sure way to get the budget up."

André Leon Talley: "First of all... Its been a very bleak week so far its been bleak streak over here in America ! You know what ? It's the famine of beauty ! Its the famine of beauty ! The famine of beauty honey ! My eyes are starving for beauty!" 

Anna Wintour: "It's beautiful."

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The September Issue, 2009

Metropolitan, 1990

 

 

 

"Nick Smith: The cha cha is no more ridiculous than life itself."

 

 

"Fred Neff: Men are dates, date substitutes or potential dates. I find that dehumanizing."

 

"Nick Smith: Rick Von Slonecker is tall, rich, good looking, stupid, dishonest, 

conceited, a bully, liar, drunk and thief, an egomaniac, and probably psychotic. 

In short, highly attractive to women."

 

 

"Charlie Black: I can't believe you don't have a driver's license.
Tom Townsend: Of course I don't. I live in Manhattan."

 

"Tom Townsend: You don't have to read a book to have an opinion."

"Nick Smith: I've always planned to be a failure anyway, that's why I plan to marry an extremely wealthy woman."

 

"Jane Clark: Whatever. And, that you're completely impossible and out of control, with some sort of drug problem and a fixation on what you consider Rick Von Sloneker's wickedness. You're a snob, a sexist, totally obnoxious, and tiresome. And lately, you've gotten just weird. Why should we believe anything you say?
Nick Smith: I'm not tiresome."

 

 

 

 

"Man at Bar: The acid test is whether you take any pleasure in responding to the question "What do you do?" I can't bear it."

 

 

 

"Audrey Rouget: What Jane Austen novels have you read?
Tom Townsend: None. I don't read novels. I prefer good literary criticism. That way you get both the novelists' ideas as well as the critics' thinking. With fiction I can never forget that none of it really happened, that it's all just made up by the author."

 

 

 

 

"Tom Townsend: I've never been this drunk before. 

The problem is, with Fred no longer drinking, I can't pace myself."

 

"Nick Smith: Playing strip poker with an exhibitionist somehow takes the challenge away."

 

 

 

"Tom Townsend: He seems less pessimistic than you.
Charlie Black: I know: it doesn't ring true."

 

 

 

 

"Nick Smith: The most important thing to realize about parents is that there is absolutely nothing you can do about them."

 

 

 

"Serena Slocum: I didn't save your letters but I didn't throw them away.
Tom Townsend: I don't understand, is that a riddle?"

 

 

 

 

"Cynthia McLean: Is our language so impoverished that we have to use acronyms of French phrases to make ourselves understood?
Nick Smith: Yes."

 

 

 

"Nick Smith: Tom's hardly a phoney. Just mildly deluded. He's a perfectly nice guy.
Charlie Black: That's just another aspect of his phoniness. He's a terrible phoney, and when he's not being a phoney, he's a bastard.
Nick Smith: Oh, come on."

 

 

 

"Nick Smith: I guess you could say it's extremely vulgar, I like it a lot."

Metropolitan, 1990