Peter York Quotes

Men turn to formal wear when they want a new job or when they think their current one is in danger. They try to present themselves as powerful and successful.

Peter York

• Powerful
• New
• Wear

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

Peter York

• People
• Conflict
• Status

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

Peter York

• Architecture
• Jewellery
• Chandeliers

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

Peter York

• Beauty
• Genius
• Cunning

The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required kit ever afterwards. The important thing was to have the books, not actually read them.

Peter York

• Book
• Library
• Read

Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.

Peter York

• Art
• Source
• Advertising

Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.

Peter York

• Living
• Writers
• Subjects

Selling scent is a key job for celebrities. At any one time, there'll be hundreds of them at it, going on the world's talk shows, doing photo-shoots, providing employment for thousands. Celebrities are instant brands.

Peter York

• Brands
• Celebrities
• Scent

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

Peter York

• World
• Eat
• Rock And Roll

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

Peter York

• Learn
• Pleasure
• Mistakes