Quotes About Status

I shouldn't ca' fo' the disgrace of bein' poo' if it wasn't fo' the inconvenience.

The Queen is so poor she has to spend her own money.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.

While religious and financial manias might seem to have little in common, the underlying forces that give them rise are identical: the desire to improve one's well-being in this life or the next. And the factors that amplify the contagion of financial and religious mass delusions are also similar: the hardwired human propensity to imitate, to fabricate and consume compelling narratives, and to seek status.

Manifestly, man is the ape that imitates, tells stories, seeks status, morally condemns others, and yearns for the good old days, all of which guarantee a human future studded with religious and financial mass manias.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

This room was the resort of men who hadn't much beyond a sense of themselves and weren't inclined to have that sense diminished. Harkness recognised a feeling he had experienced in other East-End pubs, and understood precisely where the tension came from. It came from the realisation that just by coming in you had shucked the protection of your social status. In this place your only credentials were yourself.

See, you always buy with notes. Coins are beneath you. You become a whisky-millionaire.

When the Bible is viewed primarily as a collection of devotional thoughts, its status as the most devastating work of social criticism in history is forgotten.

The source of status is no longer the ability to make things but simply the ability to purchase them.

Honor" is different from '"dignity." Honor is an obsession with status, with a sense that status can be lost, and therefore any sign of disrespect must be treated as a challenge that must be suppressed.

Under enemy-alien status, as his biographer Robert Chadwell Williams has pointed out, he could not own a car or join a British Civil Defense team, but he could in time work on the most secret aspects of atomic physics.

Young man, Mr. Aubrey has made us so rich that we can now afford to worry about our image.

Feminist scholars rightly stress the importance of power in sexual conflict. It must be recognized, however, that men's motivations for power, status, and resources exist in part because women have preferred to mate with men who possess power, status, and resources. Neglecting this part of the causal origins of sexual conflict will impede efforts to alter it.

The consequences of women's attractiveness for a man's social status are critical. Everyday folklore tells us that our mate is a reflection of ourselves. Men are particularly concerned about status, reputation, and hierarchies because elevated rank has always been an important means of acquiring the resources that make men attractive to women. It is reasonable, therefore, to expect that a man will be concerned about the effect that his mate has on his social status

Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.

Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God') to KCMG ('Kindly Call Me God') to .. the GCMG ('God Calls Me God').

Jesus measured greatness in terms of service not status. God determines your greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you.

When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much, but everybody has one in his pocket.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good