Quotes About Status

When you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault.

Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.

He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.

That's why I got a new dumb thing moving through the streets Got a new condo moving to the beach Heard Nicki just bought a brand new crib Got damn man she's beauty and the beast

Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

What, not coins in the bank? Does your purse hang as flaccid as a gelding's scrotum?

class is more than income—it has to do with knowing where you stand in a web of social relationships.

If he's got a big yellow scarf over his left shoulder, he's the king. Bow lower in that case.

It is just that — according to some who style themselves in the know — you are destitute.

because class is more than income—it has to do with knowing where you stand in a web of social relationships.

To the Equity Lords, the idea had been worth billions; to Hackworth, another week's paycheck. That was the difference between the classes, right there.

He is sure that this would elevate his stature beyond that of dull software boy.

See, because being Cool is obviously the most important thing on earth. It's more important than getting a job, or having a girlfriend, or political power, or money, because all those things are predicated by Coolness.

See, because being Cool is obviously the most important thing on earth. It's more important than getting a job, or having a girlfriend, or political power, or money, because all those things are predicated by Coolness. They happen because of it. They depend on it.

See, because being Coll is obviously the most important thing on earth. It's more important than getting a job, or having a girlfriend, or political power, or money, because all those things are predicated by Coolness. They happen because of it. They depend on it.

women tend to respond to status and social proof.

Everybody seems to be here and a few more. But what I'm trying to find out is the name, status, and race of the blonde beauty out of the fairy-tale. She's dancing with Ralph Hazelton at the moment. Nice study in contrasts, that.

In this neighborhood, with only forty-five cents, you're a bum. But Sobotnik, even with two dollars, he's still a bum.

In America if you're poor, you're worse than a criminal. You're nobody.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD once wrote, "The rich are different from you and me," to which Hemingway famously replied, "Yes, they have more money.

He said, The spring was good enough for their mothers and their grandmothers before them. They will get ideas above their station in life if they have a well. She

The conceit of literary intellectuals is to imagine that other people don't have ideas so that they can assume a superior status by having their own...

It was a terrible thing for a girl to learn. That status is more important than feelings