Quotes About Status

I hate to make the comparison here, but think of me as one of those expensive boutiques. If you have to ask about the cost, you probably can't afford me.

Even down here, money has plenty to say.

Certificates from top US universities adorned the walls like tiger head in a hunter's home.

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

as with money in your wallet the world gives you some respect and lets you breathe.

Agi como um esnobe, que como vocês devem saber, significa indivíduo sem nobreza.

Everyone that is not a noble," he lamented, "is a slave.

Without meaning to, you usually end up with a board made up of the richer members of the congregation.

Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma," writes Alain de Botton in his book Status Anxiety, efficiently summing up Draper, Grey, and Trump in one blow. "It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love.

She had no idea what rung she occupied now, being not quite a servant yet not the same as well-bred people. But she didn't think she would like to be in society.

Money is the seal and stamp of success.

man becomes a little cog in the machine, and, aware of this, his one preoccupation is to become a bigger cog. —Max Weber,

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

Both writing and poker function as economies of status and prestige, and both require a survivalist's iron will.

In his experience, only children greeted the sight of a police officer with enthusiasm and pleasure. Children like order and security. Most adults do too, but those feelings are complicated by issues of ego, dominance, control, status, and sex, all of which come bubbling up from the bog of the unconscious when you are confronted with a man with the power to take your freedom or your life.

Poor fellow, he needed handmade shoes because of his 'awkward feet' and Savile Row suits because he wasn't lucky enough to have the figure for ready-made ones. Cheap wine played havoc with his stomach so he drank expensive ones, and because he couldn't fit into economy-size airline seats he was forced to go everywhere first class.

There was an open bottle of champagne in the ice bucket, and already the level was down as far as the label. 'Are we celebrating something?' I asked as I took off my coat and hung it in the hall. 'Don't be so bloody bourgeois,' said Tessa, handing me a champagne flute filled right to the brim. That was one of the problems of marrying into wealth; there were no luxuries.

That was one of the problems of marrying into wealth; there were no luxuries.

There's room at the top I'm telling you still but first you must learn how to smile as you kill if you want to be like the folks on the hill.

The shnorrer was no fool, please note, no simpleton. He often had read a good deal, could quote from the Talmud, and was quick on the verbal draw. Shnorrers were "regulars" in the synagogue and, between prayers, took part in long discussions of theology with their benefactors. The status points involved here are too delicate for Newtonian physics, or Parsonian sociology,* to handle. (Certain Hindu and Oriental groups recognize the beggar in the same way.)

The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit

It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.