Quotes About Status

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

You are a nobleman?" I eyed him and the others listening to us with a heavy sigh. "I am the Viscount of Marsdale. My father is the Earl of Dorshire." All eyes went wide. "Oh, stop, it is a mere accident of birth.

Her voice had suddenly jumped a couple of social classes to underline her ownership status.

Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.

I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.

prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, not a goal worth striving for; that value depends not on race or status but on the image of God every person bears; that no amount of effort to improve physical beauty has much relevance for the world beyond.

Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.

There was no question now who sat at the right hand of the King. It was the Queen, who walked through the great hall wearing deepest crimson and gold with her head high and a little smile on her lips. She did not flaunt her return to favour. She took it as she had taken her eclipse: as the nature of royal marriage. Now that her star was risen again she walked as proudly as she had ever done when in shadow.

She has followed me into every single room in this palace, and then she followed Anne Neville when she was her lady-in-waiting, too. She walked behind Anne at her coronation, carrying the train. Perhaps Lady Margaret is feeling that it's her turn to be the first lady now, and she wants someone trailing along behind her.

we will put the Howards so high they can never fall.

News flash, lady. There are no queens anymore," Shane said. He loaded shells in a shotgun and snapped it shut, then searched for a place to strap it on that didn't interfere with the flamethrower. "No queens, no kings, no emperors. Not in America. Only CEOs. Same thing, but not so many crowns.

But he looks no more than thirty. He's very handsome-- so much you will admit; nor will you deny that he is very wealthy and very powerful; the greatest nobleman in Brittany. He will make me a great lady.' 'God made you that, Aline.

Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.

Hollywood is a whole other level of crazy. I've never met so many assistants who have assistants. It's a stratified society on its own.

I drive an Escalade.

I've been a huge Cartier fan from my very early days.

Eighty dollars for a T-shirt - that's how you know the brand is good.

I am now The Establishment. There's nothing I can do about it.

What makes you the establishment is if you buy into it.

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

Holy Prophet PBUH promulgated a justice system regardless of status of people, yet in Pak the powerful easily escapes.

a blue dyed Balenciaga mink and almost exactly $2,500,000 worth of diamonds—including a thirty-odd carat diamond in each ear and a 34.8 carat blue diamond ring (putting it just below the famed Hope diamond, which is 44.5 carats, and the 35.5-carat Wittebacher, which is on sale for $650,000. Contact J. Komkommer in Antwerp). …Childless, she spends 5 or 6 months a year in the U.S. (she has a 7½ room apartment in Manhattan's Hotel Pierre)…

You know who has tenure? The pope has tenure. The Queen of England has tenure. So does Fidel and the communists - because they represent the people, of course (scoff). Federal judges have tenure as well - no federal judge has ever successfully been removed. And then there's the college professors. Me. How do you like that?

But Godenheimer's had the best and cheapest silver foxes, and buttered Frau Breitwehr up, and called her "Madam" every other sentence. So she bought the silver fox fur. When she wears it, they look like a rich fur taking a poor woman out for a walk.