Saturday, April 7, 2007

Quotation: The Shame of American Millionaires

"Mr. Du Pont was about 50 - pink, clean shaven and dressed in the conventional disguise with which Brooks Brothers covers the shame of American millionaires. He wore a single-breasted tan tropical suit and a white silk shirt with a shallow collar. The rolled ends of the collar were joined by a gold safety pin beneath the knot of a narrow dark red and blue striped tie that fractionally wasn't the Brigade of Guards'. The cuffs of the shirt protruded half an inch below the cuffs of the coat and showed cabochon crystal links containing miniature trout flies. The socks were charcoal-grey silk and the shoes were old and polished mahogany and hinted Peal. The man carried a dark, narrow-brimmed straw homburg with a wide claret ribbon."


- Ian Fleming, Goldfinger, 1959


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