Quotes About Status

Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.

Yale men do not like to be told anything by people who didn't go to Yale. The closest I came to Yale was once I had one of their padlocks.

No man is rich enough to waste his money in putting on style.

A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.

Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors and it never changed.

It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford.

Seven thirty in the morning is too early for a man of my standing.

Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

In our society, the best predictor of a man's wealth is his wife's looks, and the best predictor of a woman's looks is her husband's wealth.

A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.

Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.

Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.

It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.

Shaq is rich. The white man who signs his check... is wealthy. "Ah, here you go, Shaq. Go buy yourself a bouncing car. Bling, bling!"

Men love women but, even more than that, men love cars.

A man's looks are measured by the depth of his pockets.

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.