Quotes About Status

To be a queen , do you have to rule a country or marry a king? Not necessarily---there are other ways to be considered royal today. For example, take Elizabeth Taylor or Jacqueline Onassis. Would you dare to call either of these grand dames less than regal?

Some people, it's like they care more about their status updates than their actual lives.

your friends "liked" your status in a way that leaves no doubt that you were the one dumped.

You will always choose the Peaches and Benjis of the world over me because you're loyal to the gentry.

Indeed, for the denizens of Versailles, clothes and other seemingly superficial emblems remained concrete measures of their success . . . or failure. In this rarefied world, the surface was the substance. And the appearance of power, legible in everything from a slashed sleeve to a patent coat, was the real thing.

Boopsy's Boutique catered to the woman, or man, with money and lots of it. Date dresses ran upward of a thousand dollars, and some of the high-end designer frocks touched five figures. The dresses were exquisite, emblazoned with crystals and pearls, complete with jewel-encrusted shoes to match. Needless to say, it wasn't a place I frequented.

You're not really famous until youre a Pez dispenser.

Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

The country that always modeled social mobility for the rest of the world has become more class-ridden than recent aristocracies like Austria and Japan.

It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.

It was never wise for a ruler to eschew the trappings of power, for power itself flows in no small measure from such trappings.

But peasant's pride is lordling's shame.

Gods forbid they glimpse me near the high seat of the Arryns, they might think that I mean to sit in it. Cheeks born so low as mine must never aspire to such lofty cushions.

For now, let's just say that if your API is re-defining the HTTP verbs or if it is assigning new meanings to HTTP status codes or making up its own status codes, it is not RESTful.

She wants to live simply and thinks luxuries little more than social display.

This is an impressive crowd—the haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite; I call you my base.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

Thus captain and crew enjoyed a life style above their means, one they were anxious to perpetuate.

I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

It is always considered a piece of impertinence in England if a man of less than two or three thousand a year has any opinions at all upon important subjects.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

When Babe Ruth was asked in 1930 how he felt about making more money that the President of the United States, he replied 'I had a better year than he (Herbert Hoover) did.' When Tom Snyder was asked in 1977 how he felt about making more money per year than President Carter, he replied, 'I have to go out and buy my own 707.'

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.