Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Diamond as Big as the Ritz.
Wealth Quotes
St. Midas' School is half an hour from Boston in a Rolls-Pierce motorcar. The actual distance will never be known, for no one, except John T. Unger, had ever arrived there save in a Rolls-Pierce an...
Visions of America Quotes
Nothing would suit them but that he should go to St. Midas' School near Boston—Hades was too small to hold their darling and gifted son. (1.2)
Religion Quotes
John T. Unger came from a family that had been well known in Hades—a small town on the Mississippi River—for several generations. (1.1)
Youth Quotes
Young John T. Unger, who had just turned sixteen, had danced all the latest dances from New York before he put on long trousers. And now, for a certain time, he was to be away from home. That respe...
Freedom and Confinement Quotes
A function that in Hades would be considered elaborate would doubtless be hailed by a Chicago beef-princess as "perhaps a little tacky." (1.3)