5 Quotes by L.S. Hilton

Wealth creeps under your epidermis like poison. It invades your posture, your gestures, the way you carry yourself.

When you're no one from nowhere it's best to know your limits. Rich kids can play at bohemia, but wealth has long tendrils; it twines into a safety net which can also be a trap for the unprepared. Rich kids have families and backgrounds and connections, and they ask questions, because their world functions on being able to place people. I couldn't expose myself to that.

Choices are made before explanations, whether or not we care to know it.

Being civilized meant knowing about the right things. However much people pretend that doesn't matter, it's true. Disclaiming that is as foolish as thinking that beauty doesn't matter. And to get among the right things, you have to be among the people who possess them. Since one also likes to be thorough, knowing the difference between a hereditary and an honorary marquess always comes in handy.

Sedatives and slim pills: French doctors are so obliging. That's why French women don't get fat.