32 Chauffeur Quotes On Success In Life

Famous Chauffeur Quotes

1. “A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration, an incessant control of attention, and presence of mind; the conductor only has to add a little sense of music.” ~ Sergei Rachmaninoff
2. “I have terrible luck. Last week my chauffeur ran off without my wife.” ~ Henny Youngman
3. “I never take anything for granted. I think it’s very cool to still get excited about things. I get as excited now as I ever did when I get a chauffeur driven car pick me up and I stay in a fantastic hotel or get to fly in a private plane. I never want to get blasé.” ~ Victoria Beckham

4. “The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.” ~ Woodrow Wilson

5. “Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.” ~ Thomas Beecham
6. “To lead the good life in New York, the two most important things for a woman are a chauffeur and a fur-lined raincoat. If you have those two things, you’re made.” ~ Iris Apfel
7. “When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said: ”do you want me to get them off the car?” and Lennon replied: ”No – they paid for it, they can wreck it” ~ John Lennon
8. “When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you’re mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!” ~ Paul McCartney

9. “My husband is a general’s chauffeur somewhere in France” ~ Lillie Langtry

10. “The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.” ~ Michael Gove
11. “I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur – do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.” ~ Dennis Lehane
12. “Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves.” ~ Ralph Harper

13. “My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.” ~ Paul Nurse

14. “The greatest luxury is not driving. I didn’t own a car until I was 30, and that was a Rolls-Royce, so it was cheaper to insure a chauffeur. I never want to drive again. My mind is always on other things. I hate parking, and I’m very short-tempered and would get road rage, I’m sure.” ~ Michael Caine
15. “Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I’ve been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I’ve been a painter. A personal shopper. An accountant and a banker. I’ve been a beautician. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. A movie reviewer. A nurse. A psychologist. A negotiator. An I have a Ph. D in How to Pretend Like You Don’t Mind.” ~ Terry McMillan
16. “In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed.” ~ Allan Sherman

17. “Our kids haven’t any airs about them. I don’t like posh kids who don’t like dirty dolls or expect a chauffeur every time they go out.” ~ Linda McCartney

18. “Nurses nurse
    and teachers teach
    and tailors mend
    and preachers preach
    and barbers trim
    and chauffeurs haul
    and parents get to do it all.” ~ Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz
19. “It’s the chauffeur’s outfit from hell, right down to the alligator shoes. I was wearing these alligator shoes and this very interesting and haunting chauffeur’s outfit, but what really did it for me was the hat. And then, when I eventually get my eye taken out, the gold eye really brought it home for me.” ~ Dennis Haysbert
20. “… the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. … The era may witness the first female engineer, motor truck chauffeur, radio broadcaster, head of an aviation school, or federal prohibition officer, but it has not produced the first thinking, creative, and writing woman by any means.” ~ Mary Ritter Beard

21. “The self is like a pimping blackmailing chauffeur who gets you from here to there on word lines.” ~ William S. Burroughs

22. “I’ll say this again: Her presence would be the best Mother’s Day gift I could ever ask for. I know Kate Siegel a big bestselling author now, but I was sliced, no, ripped open from my boobs down to my baby cannon to bring her into this world, all but bathed in her puke for years, and acted as her own personal chauffeur for the first sixteen years of her life.” ~ Kate Siegel
23. “I like a spirituality with a God that knows how to drive a car, that knows how to take his girl to the dance club, dance all night, have a little drink, kiss the kid when they come back in and go to sleep. God doesn’t need a chauffeur– he needs to drive himself.” ~ Jeff Buckley
24. “Women’s rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those who work outside the home and those who dedicate themselves with more altruism than any profession I know to being wives and mothers, cooks and chauffeurs, and child psychologists and loving human beings.” ~ William Ruckelshaus

25. “The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It’s a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur-driven Jaguar MK X.” ~ Ben Kingsley

26. “The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in their own lives to chauffeur their children to lessons, doctors, and other services that could be reached via public transport in the city.” ~ David Riesman , Chauffeur quotes service
27. “Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters are the automobiles. Others talk about stories that are “plot-driven,” as if the plot were neither the highway nor the automobile, but the chauffeur. Others seem to have plot phobia and say they never plot. Still others turn up their noses at the very notion, as if there’s something artificial, fraudulent, contrived.” ~ James N. Frey
28. “What man could afford to pay for all the things a wife does, when she’s a cook, a mistress, a chauffeur, a nurse, a baby-sitter? But because of this, I feel women ought to have equal rights, equal Social Security, equal opportunities for education, an equal chance to establish credit.” ~ Betty Ford

29. “We are all a little bit racist. White people, y’all are the first people to denounce it. I’m not racist. I’m incapable of being racist. My best friend is black… He’s also my chauffeur, but he’s my best friend.” ~ Aries Spears

30. “Because it’s unacceptable that the aid worker’s chauffeur only speaks his own tribal language, an applicant is needed who also speaks English fluently – and, ideally, one who is also well mannered. So you end up with some African biochemist driving an aid worker around, distributing European food, and forcing local farmers out of their jobs. That’s just crazy!” ~ James Shikwati
31. “There are, occasionally, writers who are able to combine both story and style. They are, of course, the best. You get a spectacular view and you also get to look at it from the backseat of a chauffeur-driven Cadillac. In the field of fantasy, those writers able to combine story-as-narration with story-as-style are even rarer. But there are a few…the late Theodore Sturgeon, the early Ray Bradbury…and Richard Christian Matheson. A brilliant chip off the old block.” ~ Stephen King
32. “I came from a background where I was very poor growing up but I have never known poverty. My parents worked hard and they went to bed hungry, but they fed us. Then my father became an ambassador, so I ended up being driven by chauffeurs. And then we became refugees. After that, I looked at it through this “glass” of to have and have not, and at the end of the day, who actually helps, who actually steps up, who is there for you.” ~ Iman Abdulmajid

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