Quotes About Status

To assert that military history suggested that wars broke out because bad men, in fear or in pride, sought material advantage or status, or because sometimes good but naive men had done too little to deter them, was understandably seen as antithetical to a more enlightened understanding of human nature.

One's name should always arrive slightly ahead of one's person,

The bourgeois…they will always be traitors and cowards

The beauty about the D-list is that people who are on it probably don't know they are.

Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure their places in the world.

No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.

Gareth Bale has been levitated to the status of one of the best players in the world.

Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.

Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business.

I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.

I noticed the people who drove the nicest cars were all in the garment business.

I might be ugly, but my cars are real pretty.

I don't think Mercedes-Benz says anything about me, really. I was in a situation where I was able to get a really nice car and I'm proud to have it.

Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one.

You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.

I'm not against people having new cars. I'm against them having you. We spend a tremendous amount impressing somebody at the stoplight who we'll never meet. It makes you broke and keeps you broke.

Half a million dollars just to upgrade the car show I aint even detonate the bombs in the arsenal

I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.

I get a handsome amount. I could definitely buy a car off one of my guest appearances. & I'm not talking about a Hyundai.

Celebrities have to get their cars washed just like everybody else.

Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.

The law stated that those with property worth more than £20 a year were obliged to adopt the status of knights; but knighthood was an expensive business, with the cost of equipment alone, and many landowners were ready to pay a relatively large sum to avoid the honour.