Gigolo Quotes

“We see on our death bed, not our whole life flashing before us – as with a drowning man – but an endless sequence of all the things we had wanted to do and had never done.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Gigolo: Inside the Secret World of the Super Rich

“There is a myth I grew up with and heard so many times that I had believed it. They say money doesn’t buy you happiness. This is a delusion the poor cling to and the rich find comical. Money does buy happiness. Money equals freedom, the highest form of happiness. Money equals pleasure. The more you have the more pleasurable life is. People with money can never know what it is like to be without money. Money is a magnet, it doesn’t trickle down, it is sucked up.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Gigolo: Inside the Secret World of the Super Rich

“Morality is doing the right thing regardless of the consequences. Obedience is following orders regardless of morality. They are not kindred spirits. They are yin and yang, black and white fish looking through the eye of its opposite.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Gigolo: Inside the Secret World of the Super Rich

“If you reach a crossroads and your destination is to the left and by mistake you turn right, the further you travel along the wrong road the further you will move away from your destination. It is not easy to turn back, to change your mind. Sometimes, you have to in order to survive.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Gigolo: Inside the Secret World of the Super Rich

“There is when making love a moment when the body defies gravity. This is the moment to strive for.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Gigolo: Inside the Secret World of the Super Rich

“Love is like being burned in flames then plunged into icy water. Love leaves scars and broken hearts. Your emotions change from one second to the next.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Gigolo: Inside the Secret World of the Super Rich

“It’s lost time that matters, the time between time, the moments when you forget time and things just happen.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Gigolo: Inside the Secret World of the Super Rich

“Worrying about what ‘people are going to say’ and ‘what the neighbours might think’ is always in the minds of working people. They aren’t afraid of failure. They are afraid of success and how they would have to make excuses to their friends if it ever came their way.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Gigolo: Inside the Secret World of the Super Rich

“Love smells of moonlight and old photographs. Love is the sound of your name being called by your lover.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Gigolo: Inside the Secret World of the Super Rich

“Gossip is the human condition. It’s like water. It finds its way through every crack and gap. It can’t be contained.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Gigolo: Inside the Secret World of the Super Rich

“It is stereotypically English to accept that we are born with a fixed ‘station’ in life. It’s what keeps the poor downtrodden.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Gigolo: Inside the Secret World of the Super Rich

“I was a stranger in the strange land of the rich and was coming to see that they do things differently there.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Gigolo: Inside the Secret World of the Super Rich

“I could smell her perfume. It was light and airy, a scent I didn’t know, and seemed personal to her. She was so beautiful, I couldn’t bear to look at her.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Gigolo: Inside the Secret World of the Super Rich