Quotes About Status

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.

He did not look so old, since age generally follows on tailoring. He did not look so terribly well bred, since class follows the same rules.

Money is a country all its own.

Between the lapels of his subdued charcoal suit, he'd worn a silky red tie. A gold Rolex had circled his wrist, and an overblown blonde had been bonded on his side like a suction cup. The man clearly liked to accessorize.

My position here is that conservatives need a realistic approach to immigration that best serves and preserves our country's status and identity as a relatively high-functioning, at least for now, Western and First World nation. That status will not automatically maintain itself. It is fragile. It is precarious and vulnerable to erosion.

The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.

From that first wage case in 1958, I had, pretty much, rock star status.

A small foot in China, no different from a tiny waist in Victorian England, represented the height of female refinement. For families with marriageable daughters, foot size translated into its own form of currency and a means of achieving upward mobility. The most desirable bride possessed a three-inch foot, known as a 'golden lotus.'

I can't wait until I'm able to afford really posh bags.

My family had to live in Vienna for three months, then in Italy for another nine, while we waited for refugee status.

The only real benefit of being famous is being recognized by head waiters and getting good tables at restaurants. The rest is part ego trip and part inconvenience.

In Beverly Hills, around 3 P.M. on Bedford Drive, a strange rite occurs. All the men and women who have had facial surgery leave the their surgeons and walk up and down the street bandaged like mummies in Prada, waiting for their loved ones to pick them up.

So you wake up this morning and find you're president of the United States. Pretty cool, no? Helicopters and a 747 at your disposal; courtside seats at any NBA playoff game of your choice; everyone stands up and the band plays when you come into the room.

To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford them.

I walk by studio heads and they actually look and put their hand out now, like maybe I should be on their radar.

The thing I adore about Mariah the most is she's probably the most nurturing person I've ever met, like one of those spirits that walks into the room and wants to make sure that everybody's okay and taken care of. For someone to be at her status but be so concerned about others is really cool.

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

Everyone knows I married a prince, and then I married a billionaire.

Being a billionaire is sort of passe.

I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.

The bourgeois are other people.

Class still matters in Britain today.