Quotes About Status

When they discover I have a green card there may be some problems.

I'm a Canadian citizen, but I do have a green card.

I'm a Gucci girl all the way.

Gold and diamonds are nice, but clean, crisp, controlled water has long been the preeminent hallmark of the rich.

All love is socioeconomic. It's the gradients in status that make arousal possible.

The next eleven floors held a single apartment per floor and belonged to the principals of hedge funds and private equity firms and one Argentine model and her soccer player boyfriend who spent no more than a week out of the year in New York.

Barry had always wondered why people who were just upper-middle class in New York chose to stay there, given that they could live like minor dictators in the rest of the country.

Like a long-haul jet, their building was divided into economy, business, and first.

Reputations are easily obtained.

Anyone who wishes to imply superiority in their particular line of work is apt to style themselves an artist. The imperatives of fitness display allow us to understand the passion with which people debate whether something is or is not an art. A claim that one's work is art is a claim for sexual and social status.

Males, for example, may compete directly to copulate with fertile females or compete indirectly for food, territory, nest sites, or social status that may increase their access to fertile females. In either situation, females are not exactly "choosing" from among male competitors, but acquiescing to sex with the male that holds the food, territory, or nest site that they need in order to reproduce.

Many products are signals first and material objects second. Our vast social-primate brains evolved to pursue one central social goal: to look good in the eyes of others. Buying impressive products in a money-based economy is just the most recent way to fulfill that goal.

Changes in fashion reflects the dullness of nervous impulses: the more nervous the age, the more rapidly its fashions change, simply because the desire for differentiation, one of the most important elements of all fashion, goes hand in hand with the weakening of nervous energy. This fact in itself is one of the reasons why the real seat of fashion is found among the upper classes.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated.

Abnormal professions attract two classes: those who are not good enough for ordinary bourgeois life and those who are too good for it. We are dregs and scum, sir: the dregs very filthy, the scum very superior.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

Neither gender is routinely more jealous - although women are more willing to work to win back a lover, while men tend to flaunt their money and status and are more likely to walk out to protect their self-esteem or save face.

Younger women are willing to go out with high status males. If you look at the kind of women Salman Rushdie attracts, they tend to be intelligent, arty types. For her, it's a kudos thing. The man just wants a good-looking girl because he imagines that when his friends see him, they'll all think, 'Gosh I wish I was him.'

In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.

I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.

I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one's veins, like grandmamma and me.

Have you ever wondered why the rich and privileged care about, or even bother with, the gift bag? Because they don't need this stuff. If they wanted it, they could afford to buy it, without blinking. But they love the gift bag, beyond reason.

I never wanted to do film. I don't have the right face, and I don't like stardom. I like the fact that I have this wonderful thing that gives you status, but I'm most interested in doing decent work.