Quotes About Status

The French like anyone with money and power. - Mikhail Abramov

Remember, darling, one normally doesn't part with the Rembrandt because one is tired of looking at it. One parts with because one needs money. And the last thing a rich person wants is to tell the world that he's not rich anymore. - Julian Isherwood

The truly powerful man, said Shamron never had to ask for a favor.

I negotiate the terms of my life every day and work hard to maintain an emotional status quo that I had to create from scratch.

If a better politics were in the direct and obvious interest of the old, wealthy and powerful, it would already exist.

In 1968, when an actress made it to star status, she automatically rejected all roles that called for nudity. But Fonda broke with convention; she was a major actress who sought out roles that required her to disrobe.

We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

we buy things we don't need with money we don't have in order to impress people we don't like.

People were running around buying things they couldn't afford with money they didn't have to impress people they didn't even like

Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.

It has become routine for Catholics today to denounce clericalism — the supernatural status claimed for priests. Clerics themselves denounce it. But what is suspect, finally, is the priesthood as such. It's an illusion to pretend that "clericalism" exists apart from the entire culture defined by the sacrament of holy orders, which is the formal name of the priestly ordination rite.

Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing

As long as you were comfortable with yourself and believed in yourself, then you could just throw out all that nonsense of worrying about your status and "success" and other people's opinions.

It all came down to money - the great equalizer and common denominator.

The fact that France and Britain did go on to win the war preserved their great-power status, but to a very considerable extent they were great powers by default, and their appearance of strength and solidity was no more than an illusion.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

For this reason the rules of an infinite game have a different status from those of a finite game. They are like the grammar of a living language, where those of a finite game are like the rules of debate. In the former case we observe rules as a way of continuing discourse with each other; in the latter we observe rules as a way of bringing the speech of another person to an end.

Property is an attempt to recover the past. It returns one to precompetitive status. One is compensated for the amount of time spent (and thus lost) in competition.

The titled are powerful. Those around them are expected to yield, to withdraw their opposition, and to conform to their will—in the arena in which the title was won.

Sophistication is upscale conformity.

Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.

he had an indefinable look of privilege gone wrong

Find ways to save face.

At least this is a nation, with a religion, a head, a status, a policy. Not a damned Noah's ark: a chicken here, a lamb there, a family of wolves in the next field. I suppose you are proud of your French Queen, playing dice with Scots knucklebones for the greater glory of her native land?