Quotes About Status

The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.

For me success was always going to be a Lamborghini. But now I've got it, it just sits on my drive.

You can judge the success of a man by his bodyguards!

In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person's yard.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

The limousine is the ultimate ego trip, the supreme sign of success. It shouts: Hey, this guy is really and truly Mr Big.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

do you marry her. You marry a money-bag label, it is true; well, but what does that matter? It is better to have a blazon less and a figure more on it.

he despises all honors, and contents himself with those written on his passport." "That

Ahora los reyes se hacen muy a menudo vulgares.

The Count of Morcerf was no favorite with his colleagues. Like all upstarts, he had had recourse to a great deal of haughtiness to maintain his position.

Comment se trouve M. Bernajoux, le parent de votre écuyer?

There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he is become their equal;

There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he has become their equal.

The passion for physical comforts is essentially a passion of the middle classes: with those classes it grows and spreads, with them it preponderates.

The prestige that attached to old things having disappeared, birth, condition, and profession no longer distinguish men or hardly distinguish them; there remains scarcely anything but money that creates very visible differences between them and that can set off some from their peers. The distinction that arises from wealth is increased by the disappearance and diminution of all the others.

The passion for physical comforts is essentially a passion of the middle classes.

Germans Francis Grund, and Francis Lieber, and the Pole Adam G. de Gurowski all wrote about the striking social equality they found in America, the absence of differences in status. They all noted the American obsession with work and the restless quest for the "almighty dollar."18

After Basie married his Katie, she became one of the sidditiest of siddity sisters.

The concept of entitlement is familiar jargon in discussions of race and class, and it is just as widespread in the realm of disability. It's the idea that we are acting as if someone owes us something rather than merely asking to be treated with the respect and human dignity we deserve. It is the belief that people of a certain status or apparent condition have no right to demand better because we should just be happy with whatever we get. We should be happy we have anything at all.

a royal bride could come to enjoy considerable power and influence, as did both Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. Yet such status and power emanated solely from her husband. She enjoyed no freedoms but those he permitted her. Without him, she was nothing. Queens

Mine was the Benjamin Button of careers; age and status had both gone backward. It definitely took some getting used to.

I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory.