Quotes About Status

Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

Lastly, would not society become secretly more hierarchical as it became outwardly more democratic?

Interesante como a divisão de classes cria rituais próprios, que aumentam a distância entre elas.

I had to admit, my little Accord hadn't looked all that great next to the Benzes and Rolls in that garage to begin with, but now that it'd been turned into a mobile tribute to the artistic rendering of Lil' Loco, it stuck out like a Cracker Jack ring in a a Tiffany display.

I have the solution to all my problems. I have money, position, the running of one of the country's legendary cattle stations. I can even get the girl I want. I can't buy her, of course. She's got money of her own. But I'm pretty sure if I talk to her dad, he'll give me the green light.

Privilege is the way men prime power, the world over.

Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

I don't think I'll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn't big enough.

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

La verdadera división de las clases sociales habría que hacerla teniendo en cuenta la hora en que cada uno se tira de la cama

There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.

Even an E-type Jaguar looks merely flash beside a really smart pony and trap.

The Regency was an age of hard gambling, and therefore it was more important than ever to keep the family finances afloat by marrying well.

Whereas Lelong's authority came from the status of ownership, Dior's came from an artist's inner certainty that his work was good.

You know you've made it in D.C. when someone says that--"It isn't clear what he does"--about you.

Son of Lady Chatterley's Lover had obvious commercial advantages (as a title for this book), but it impugned the marital status of my parents, something that enough critics were already doing.

Whelan was in the position he was, exactly

Up till now, they are only on dock No. 10, not in Umm Qasr, not in the city

Prestige and premium will also play an important role in the future. But some people define these values differently today.

Upper classes are a nation's past the middle-class is its future.

Knowing your HIV status is so important for your future health and that of your loved ones.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.