Quotes About Status

All hat, no cattle...doing whatever it took to keep up the appearance of wealth, when in reality he is no better off than anyone else. - Texas saying

White's is a more prestigious club than Brabbler's." "Most clubs are," Devon rejoined wryly. "But the air is a bit too thin in such elevated circles. And if White's didn't want me before I was an earl, there's no reason for them to want me now. I'm unchanged in every regard except for the fact that I'm now as deeply in debt as the rest of the peerage.

What if Winterborne turns out to be lame and blind?" "He'll still be rich.

Alicia, do I sell fertilizer?" Massie asked. "No, why?" Alicia fell for Massie's setup. "Then why do you think I give a crap?

And consider this: the angel appeared to Mary first, not to her husband-to-be, Joseph. 'She had no status or honor apart from him,' yet Gabriel came to Mary—further proof of how much God values women.

had often occurred to Chen how shattering it must be for someone who had devoted their whole life to material possessions to suddenly find themselves in a world where status depended on entirely more intangible matters. He

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people ... To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

These days, however, gentlemanly status seems to be more a question of appearance than conduct.

Tell me this," Pudge would often ask me, as he sat and read about the exorbitant funeral of a rival. "If he was the guy with all the power, then how come he's riding in the lead car, stuffed inside a coffin?

I don't have to work. I could buy your fucking penthouse twice over myself with my trust fund.

The Jogger Killer is currently terrorizing women who are now too scared to go out running alone. And Rulandi Duval is a pit bull with a chip on her shoulder. She's a woman in a position of power in a traditionally male environment, and she's got something to prove. You and Tom also ooze privilege. You live in Story Cove. You own a boat. It's moored at an exclusive marina. You belong to a country club.

Better a king in the gutter,' he said, 'than a slave in an emperor's place

From a certain height, everyone looks the same - men, women, villains, kings - as if rank and fortune were simply an accident of perspective.

A rich man is most coveted but I'd be damned if I be a poor woman

Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun.

She used to be a schoolteacher but she has no class now.

I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

We're told that to be fly, you gotta have a fly car, the rims on your wheels, the fly jewels, and that to work a regular job and make legal money is uncool.

Facebook should have a relationship status saying; 'Friends with benefits' since that's all anyone is anymore.

It is proven that Cool Guys are Rich.

I like being famous. It can be a bit of a pain but you get free food in restaurants and people send you clothes.

What is praised is your future - if you can become someone respectable, powerful, rich, intellectual, in some way famous, not just a nobody.

Single and Relationship are just titles. Your ACTIONS determines your true relationship status.

Single and relationship are just titles. your heart determines your true relationship status.