Quotes About Status

I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.

Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

I was a houseman, the lowest. I was just above - in the hierarchy of jobs, I was just above the Puerto Rican dishwashers - just above, so I felt superior to them.

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

A vote to leave would be a leap into the dark that would put our status as a science superpower at risk. That is why I will be joining Boris in making a positive case for Britain's future in a reformed E.U.

The U.S. will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system. The world will become multi-polar.

There's a difference between a superstar and a megastar.

I'm just the same guy... I don't need to be a celebrity or a superstar.

We have so many male superstars, but there are just a few female actors who have attained that status. It is not only because of the industry; it's in the society.

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

'Downton Abbey' is a pageant, a cavalcade of a time when being born right is the first and most irrevocable career move, and in which an older order - whose passing 'Downton's' creator, Julian Fellowes, clearly mourns - is submerging in icy seas as surely as a grand and extravagant ocean liner.

Children are more perceptive than we give them credit for: the poorest kids know their place as surely as the wealthiest children are aware of their station.

We passed a big white two storied Monterey house that must have cost $70,000

Rich men all belong to the same club. Sure, there's competition – hard, tough competition for circulation, for newsbeats, for exclusive stories. Just so long as it doesn't damage the prestige and privilege and position of the owners. If it does, down comes the lid.

To ameliorate & raise the standard of the workingmen to the bourgeois level, is perhaps to create a race of slaves content with their lot,-a cast of comfortable Pariahs.

But Zeca already felt something the older executives had yet to learn—that status, power, and even money are sometimes not enough to make a job interesting.

Don't worry about him, the girl said. He's rich. He has 3,859 Rolls Royces.

He...discovered that people's goodwill was frequently in inverse relationship to their position...

Wealth, in his experience, was not something the people who had it were at all keen to see trickling anywhere.

Yukio was angry because he was. Because he was an asshole male with delusions of status just like Dad, just like the rest of them, and I'd humiliated him in front of Plex and Tanaseda. Because he was an asshole male just like the rest of them, in fact, and rage was the default setting.

Celebrity has its uses. I can always get a seat in any restaurant. Source: Esquire Magazine, June 2000 original edition

in this country shadings of class resist time longer than differentials in age

Mr Pope, there is no "Lady Maria and I". It is an absurd concept. You must understand just this: my daughter is a jewel as far above you as the stars.