This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Akron chapter.
As we all know (and if you don’t know, where have you been?!), our beloved Gossip Girl is officially ten years old this month! It’s hard to believe we first met the iconic Serena Van Der Woodson, the obnoxious Dan Humphrey, the best ever Doroda, the annoying Jenny Humphrey, the beautiful Nate Archibald, the perfect Chuck Bass, and the Queen Blair Waldorf 10 years ago already! No matter how old they might be, Queen B’s words of wisdom will never go out of style. Here are some of the best life lessons we’ve learned from the Queen of the Upper East Side along with some of her best outfits.
1. “Destiny is for losers. It’s just a stupid excuse to wait for things to happen instead of making them happen.”
2. “You need to be cold to be queen. Anne Boleyn thought only with her heart and she got her head chopped off.”
3. “Have a little faith, and if that doesn’t work, have a lot of mimosas.”
4. “You can’t make people love you, but you can make them fear you.”
5. “People don’t write sonnets about being compatible, or novels about shared life goals and stimulating conversation. The great loves are the crazy ones.”
6. “Whoever said that money doesn’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.”
7. “Once men have tasted caviar it baffles me how they settle for catfish.”
8. “If you really want something you don’t stop for anyone or anything until you get it.”
9. “I have an idea for you: quit. Your boss is a bitch. Let’s go to lunch.”
10. “Just because we can’t be together doesn’t mean I don’t love you.”
11. “What we have is a great love. It’s complicated. Intense. All-consuming. No matter what we do and how much we fight, it’ll always pull us in.”
12. “Fashion is the most powerful art there is. It’s movement, design, and architecture all in one. It shows the world who we are and who we’d like to be.”
13. “Three words. Eight letters. Say it and I’m yours.”
14. “They say Rome wasn’t built in a day. And yet what a difference a day makes.”
15. “Feelings never do make sense. They get you all confused. Then they drive you around for hours before they drop you right back where you started.”
16. “The thing about new beginnings is that they require something else to end.”