Quotes About Status

Now my haters are very high class people, so I feel like I've moved up.

If you're going to be a movie star, you should live like one.

Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity.

Movie stars, rich people - oh, they have so many beautiful cars!

There are more movie stars in the lobby of the Aquadulce than there are in the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Ferrari or Lamborghini. Never fancied one of those - too flash for me. I don't really like seeking too much attention.

You'd be amazed how much attention $1 million will get you.

A lot of musicians put diamonds on things to show they had money. I on the other had felt that Daytona showed I had style and I didn't need to be flashy.

Let's get rid of the myth that I'm rich.

I hear luxury brand names, I cringe.

The urban middle class destroyed, the working poor exploited, the vulgar rich elevated to eminence, the underclass demonised, the wasteland of celebrity held in veneration.

The prerogative of the Crown; the enthronement of 'The Crown in Parliament', is the special and particular symbol of our status as subjects instead of citizens. It is a rubbing in of the fact that we have no rights, properly understood, but rather traditions that depend on the caprice of a political compromise made in 1688.

Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.

Nicht, dass ich es dir verdenken könnte. Ich bin ausgesprochen koitabel – im Grunde das große Los. Eine Weile war ich sogar König.« »Wenn Worte Reichtum wären«, seufzte der Mohr. »Du wärst ein König unter Königen, aber im Moment bist du nur klein, nass und laut.«

The chair outranks the badge.

This Hitler movement was a revolt of the lower middle classes, whose savings had been wiped out by the inflation and who saw themselves being reduced to the status of proletarians.

The excessively rich were as shy as wild birds; everybody was hunting them and they took wing at the least hint of danger. They were abnormally sensitive and had to be handled as if they were made of wet tissue paper. They would absorb flattery like sponges—but only that subtle kind which assured them that they were above flattery.

The more things had cost the better they were and the more they were talked about, which was the best of all. "Three million dollars!" people would say about the palace, and their voices would be lowered as if they were speaking of the dwelling place of deity.

Rich people never forget they are rich...

Mexica warriors were predicated on birth and status. In a cyclical pattern of cause and effect, such greater innate advantages gave aristocrats predominance on the battlefield in taking captives, which in turn provided proof of their martial excellence—and

Rommel soon enjoyed almost mystical status among his Africa Korps troops, bringing to mind Virgil's famous comment on improbable achievement: "Possunt, quia posse videntur" ("They can, because they think they can," Aeneid 5.231).

The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of the people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair is not a caste.

For the masses, success has almost the same profile as supremacy.

Yes, I am a fat man, but don't sorry for me. In Jamaica a woman like a big man. She can see he is prosperous, and that he can be in charge. People call you "boss" before they even know who you are. "Big man," "Boss," "Officer," "King," and my favorite, "My Lord." When a woman call you, "My Lord," that is a sweetness.