Quotes About Status

I think if you retire from touring then people think you are retired.

Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others.

I drive a Lincoln Town Car.

Unless you're a star in this town, you're really nothing.

Education is a beautiful, liberating thing, but I think that tying in education and status, and the need to do well at every cost, is toxic.

The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

People feel these job-killing trade agreements have really squeezed the middle class and caused lots of people to lose their middle-class status.

This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.

Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more than two people together, if there are three, one of them is climbing.

Friendship is untenable for people in our position.

It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.

Having so-called "blue-blood" does not automatically mean that person has class. It just means somewhere down the road someone in their family was once someone of note. It's been my experience that blue-bloods and real nobility and royalty never mix. (Or at least they do not mix well.)

Human status ought not to depend upon the changing demands of the economic process.

You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.

In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.

I love her (Lucifer), with all my heart. She said that she would give me greatness, status, placement above the others.

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.

Every rich man's house has a servant's entrance.

What would you do if you were King's Thief, Gen? Chew with your mouth open in the royal presence? Chat with the court ladies, dropping the h's at the beginning of your words and garbling the ends of most of them? Everything about you reveals your low birth. You'd never be comfortable at the court.

She looked like someone who was used to having other people wait on her. I wonder what that's like, to never have to worry about filling the silence.

Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according to your mysterious and unknowable workings of the universe.

We're not all created equal. There are the Carries and Royces of the world, high up in their gated mansions and their fancy schools, and then there's me and my family, who are just struggling to keep our footing. Though our paths may cross momentarily, maybe it's better to stick to our own circle, so we don't get hurt when we crash into each other.