Quotes About Status

Even if both bride and groom were Catholics, they could not get married legally by a Catholic priest in a Catholic church: such a ceremony would have no status under the law, with all the consequent penalties. The Marriage Act of 1753, which had relaxed the rules for other dissenting religions, left out the Catholics.

You have to understand, a man is a man; it's doesn't matter what position he's in

Even a woman may be good, and also a slave; though the woman may be said to be an inferior being, and the slave quite worthless.

Civil strife is caused not only by inequality of property, but also by inequality of honors

He had reached the position where neither personal possessions nor official ceremony could add anything to his stature.

when a man sells his independence of thought for money or status, without realizing it he also sells his capacity for independence of thought; and, like the worn-out columnists and commentators, he must play the same old record over and over, because he has no capacity for taking a fresh point of view.

Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant?' 'Probably. That doesn't make you into one

Old money's motto was, If you have it, hide it. New money's motto was, If you have it, flaunt it.

Power and shekels are no guarantee of personal satisfaction. As you attempt to claw your way to the top, do not lose sight of your psychological needs. Make choices that bring you satisfaction and joy. (…) If being top dog makes you happy, then have at it. Live your truth. For everyone else I say this: be wary of jeopardizing your peace of mind in the pursuit of status, money, or power. Needlepoint that!

It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.

And there was one dream common to most young aristocrats of the time. Scions of a declining class which had once possessed concrete power, but which no longer retained any real hold on the world, they tried to revive symbolically, in the privacy of the bed chamber, the status for which they were nostalgic: that of the lone and sovereign feudal despot.

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on. *

He regarded spats, walking sticks, caviar, titles, tea-drinking, poetry not daily syndicated in newspapers, and all foreigners, possibly excepting the British, as degenerate.

To George F. Babbitt, as to most prosperous citizens of Zenith, his motor car was poetry and tragedy, love and heroism. The office was his pirate ship but the car his perilous excursion ashore.

to whom we should be grateful for explaining to us what the ruling classes of the country really want.

Ten, which condemned the Negroes—since nothing so elevates a dispossessed farmer or a factory worker on relief as to have some race, any race, on which he can look down;

Wow. I've never been a VIP before. I've never even been a IP.

We're all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people who'll never be impressed.

But, come on, even the waiting list for that new Prada bag was only a year. No school can be more exclusive than a limited-edition Prada bag, surely?

To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.

Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.

Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.

For the old people in my family—Mummy, the aunties, Granddad—the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal.Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.Wins what? is what I'd like to know.