Quotes About Status

The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake

Somehow I think Trophy Wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But hey, I haven't ever met a Trophy Wife, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs.

It has been my experience that if you have the responsibility of leadership, you might as well have the jewelry to go with it.

Oh, don't be silly - EVERYONE wants this. Everyone wants to be us.

Bespoke vaginas are the new Birkin bags.

His mother made a noise that in anyone of lower rank than a countess would have been given the unmannerly name of snort. As a cowed member of the ton had once commented, 'Nobody harrumphs quite like the Marchioness of Uppington.

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

The time has come when advertising has in some hands reached the status of a science.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

As one climbs up the ladders in society, one starts feeling more and more like an owner, less like a member of it.

It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho, Let Einstein be, ' restored the status quo.

There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

This is the status of the Bible in modern life: it is a sublime answer, but we do not know the question any more. Unless we recover the question, there is no hope of understanding the Bible.

As Sanford saw his inherited fortune draining away, his connections at the Belgian court loomed larger for him.

The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition.

The great mob of mankind are the admirers and worshippers, and, what may seem more extraordinary, most frequently the disinterested admirers and worshippers, of wealth and greatness.

the accommodation of a European prince does not always so much exceed that of an industrious and frugal peasant as the accommodation of the latter exceeds that of many an African king, the absolute master of the lives and liberties of ten thousand naked savages.

The haves are the haves until they have not." Now, Savattini understood the riddle.

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The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where ordinary life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.