Quotes About Status

Eminent positions make eminent men greater and little men less.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.

There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit.

Even the day upon which one was buried was an indicator of status. Saturday was traditionally the 'aristocratic' day for funerals.

Where I come from, some people wear fine suits just to ride on an Aeroplane - I suspect they think if they impress it enough it will be sure to carry them safely.

She smelled like accounts receivable. She looked like old money.

bottle green Jaguar.

others met (if at all) only virtually, whose institutional status

Like the rich boarding school kid who gets away with a hit-and-run, getting away with it doesn't mean that you're lawless but that you are above the law. The bad-boy artist can do whatever he wants because of who he is. Transgressive bad-boy art is, in fact, the most risk-averse, an endless loop of warmed-over stunts for an audience of one: the banker collector.

the man who has been wealthy is dunned more civilly than the fellow who has ever been poor.

The richer you are, I've worked out, the smaller your telephone and the bigger your telephoto lens.

The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow.

The second class status of marriage became one of the principal issues in the Reformation. Martin Luther, the Augustinian friar, had barely posted his ninety-five theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg when he took himself a wife.

It will always be a batt le a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

Entre vós, o dinheiro é essencial, é a base de tudo. Aqui, garanto-lhe, não é assim. Na Rússia só conta o privilégio, a proximidade do poder. Tudo o resto é acessório. Era assim no tempo do czar, e durante os anos comunistas ainda mais. O sistema soviético baseava-se no estatuto

Um Mercedes negro, último modelo: a unidade de base da locomoção moscovita

aristocracia offshore,

There was some nobility in being poor, but absolutely none in being poor because you were an idiot.

This country thinks people with money are interesting, not people who need money like

it seemed likely to slide them back into the traditional status of servants or slaves, into the older world where labor was merely a painful necessity and not a source of prosperity.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Yükselen bir s?n?f?n bulunduÄŸu her yerde ahlak?n büyük k?sm? menfaatlerden ve bu s?n?f?n üstünlük duygusundan doÄŸar.

One thing was certain: the Morses had not cared to have him for himself or for his work.  Therefore they could not want him now for himself or for his work, but for the fame that was his, because he was somebody amongst men, and—why not?—because he had a hundred thousand dollars or so.  That was the way bourgeois society valued a man, and who was he to expect it otherwise?