Quotes About Status

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

I grew up in the 1920s and 1930s in a nouveau riche world, where money was spent wildly, and I'm still living in one!... The private schools are all jammed with long waiting lists; the clubs -- all the old clubs -- are jammed with long waiting lists today; the harbors are clogged with yachts; there has never been a more material society than the one we live in today.... Where is this 'vanished world' they talk about? I don't think the critics have looked out the window!

Peace is for people with a bank account.

In Phnom Penh, it seems that the more money you have, the more stairs you have to climb to your home. Ma

Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king

the means by which we might achieve the status of Christian legend.

One's relationship with money is lifelong, it colors one's sense of identity, it shapes one's attitude to other people, it connects and splits generations; money is the arena in which greed and generosity are played out, in which wisdom is exercised and folly committed. Freedom, desire, power, status, work, possession: these huge ideas that rule life are enacted, almost always, in and around money.

His position, like so many of his ilk, was one of uncontested and unearned respect.

Position is a poor substitute for influence.

He had several rings, a gold identification bracelet, and a gold bracelet watch, and he carried a heavy gold cigarette case, set with jewels. The case was empty, and Evarts furnished him with cigarettes as they talked.

That awkward moment when your ex likes your new relationship status on facebook.

That awkward moment when you change your facebook status to 'single' and your ex likes it.

A ugly man with money often has his arm a beautiful lady who is willing to spend it.

When your're nothing, people will ignore you but when you're on top that's when everybody swear they know you.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

'Friendzoned' should be a relationship status on Facebook.

Do you want a tampon with that status? You moody bi....

Facebook really ought to change their relationship status option from Single to Single and Awesome.

I want a relationship. It's official...I'm bored of being single.

When is the last time you saw a Lamborghini sale?

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.