Quotes About Status

One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women

Women challenge the status quo because we are never it.

Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.

When you get to Spurs you know the difference between the lesser clubs and the big boys. It's a different experience.

I worry that every time I lay down my credit card of choice, it says something about me. About my social standing or how I see myself. The very colour of your card is an indication of where you stand in the wealth stakes.

I am a junior senator, ninety-fifth on the seniority list, and so by Senate standards, my office in the Russell Senate Office Building is less than splendid.

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.

From a shallow standpoint, I like nice things.

It's always seductive to know where one stands in relation to the average.

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

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

The chivalrous man who holds a door open or signals a woman to go ahead of him when he's driving is negotiating both status and connection.

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.

I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.

Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

A man can dignify his rank; no rank Can dignify a man.