Quotes About Status

I used to have this Mercedes, a dark blue 450SLC, which was the most beautiful car. I'd like to have another unusual, beautiful car.

I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.

Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.

I would describe myself as having a healthy income, but I sure wouldn't describe the son of a postmaster and an encyclopedia saleswoman as upper class, by any stretch of the imagination. I would describe myself as decidedly middle class. I think I'm extremely fortunate.

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.

Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.

'Downton Abbey' about upper-class posh people: of course it is.

That the actual practice of meritocracy mostly involves a strenuous quest to avoid any kind of downward mobility, for oneself or for one's kids, is something every upper-class American understands deep in his or her highly educated bones.

If we'd have said we were not upset, they would have thought we were so rich it meant nothing to us, and if we say we're upset about it, they'll say money is all we care about.

I think people are always going to be fascinated about the haves and have nots - about the divide between the servants and the rich families upstairs.

Yes, guns are to men what jewelry is to women!

When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you're rich. If your name is on your desk, you're middle class. And if your name is on your shirt, you're poor.

Rolexes never lose value, so I started getting a couple of them. I like them. Not only do they look good but they work very well.

With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class.

I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status.

Nothing takes the sting out of these tough economic times like watching a bunch of millionaires giving golden statues to each other.

I never think about any of my accomplishments and I always get butterflies in my stomach and I never get too comfortable with the status.

We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac.