Quotes About Status

I've got two Rolexes that I'm very proud of - a gold Presidential that was a gift and a white gold one I gifted myself. I'm trying to step my game up and get a few more of those.

When I came into the NFL, there were three things that were very important to me: money, power and prestige. I was powerful now because I was a famous athlete. I had prestige because I was doing what everybody wanted to do. And I had a lot of money.

There has always been something about the biggest, the wealthiest, the best-known, the most prestigious that has appealed to me. It's always seemed to me that that is what people want to know about.

I'm young, Russian, I come from money, and I date a very well-known person.

I declare that I am a bachelor.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

I've seen a lot of people in my life base their self-worth on what job they book or don't book, what car they drive, or whether they can afford a house deposit or not.

My favorite designer has to be Louis Vuitton.

I don't own anything designer.

Only the elites despise earning money.

For the Anglo-Saxons, food determined a person's position in society.

I grew up in a home where diamonds were the subject.

Diamonds may be forever, but emeralds are for 2013.

Have you driven a Rolls-Royce? There is a difference between a Rolls-Royce and a Nano.

Bullying leaves permanent psychological scarring and young people become adept at learning what hurts, verbally and psychologically. Looks, personality and status are all easy targets, and particularly difficult to change.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.

I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things that give them access to the club constituted by the people who are in their tax bracket.

The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.

I'm not sure what I'd do with you if you were respectable.

Here, then, was the crux. The king and his men believed that British wealth and status derived from the colonies. The erosion of authority in America, followed by a loss of sovereignty, would encourage rebellions in Canada, Ireland, the Caribbean, India. Dominoes would topple. "Destruction must follow disunion," the colonial secretary, Lord Dartmouth, warned.