Quotes About Status

The super-rich watch each other like envious owls, to see who's got a slightly better loafer, a pullover made from some even more absurdly endangered fur. They will go to any lengths to find the best tailors.

I love to walk into places and have what I think is, like, the prettiest, smartest wife in town. I kind of enjoy that.

There was a time when only athletes had sneakers. Entertainers having sneakers, on any level, is a blessing.

Aw man, growing up I just loved sneakers. In my neighborhood, having the freshest shoes was always a key. A major key.

I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.

Inverted snobbery is just as dangerous as snobbery itself, you know - that pride in having nothing.

Class and the snobbery it provokes still matter far too much in Britain, but we are a far more mobile society than we used to be.

Food is the only snobbery allowed. Imagine pulling up in your expensive car alongside somebody at the lights with a cheap car and saying, 'Is that all you've got?' But people do it with food.

Practically everyone I know now is from a middle- or upper-middle-class background, and I no longer have the huge chip on my shoulder that I carried around for so many years. I'm not sure it comes out much in the work, but coming from this kind of background is absolutely central to my identity, to my sense of who I am.

It is a formula that binds the victim to his victimization by linking his power to his status as a victim

If you walk on stilts, you're still walking on your feet. If you sit on the highest throne in the world, you're still sitting on your ass.

Their wealth makes them like a different creature, an exotic thing that doesn't have to function like a human.

Disciplines do have status, and we judge others as representatives of their disciplines.

Eh, Nikanor Ivanovich!' the unknown man exclaimed soulfully. 'What are official and unofficial persons? It all depends on your point of view on the subject. It's all fluctuating and relative, Nikanor Ivanovich. Today I'm a unofficial person, and tomorrow, lo and behold, I'm an official one! And it happens the other way round -oh, how it does! - Chapter 9

Who is official and who is unofficial these days? It all depends on your point of view. It's all so vague and changeable, Nikanor Ivanovich. Today I'm unofficial, tomorrow, hey presto! I'm official! Or maybe vice-versa – who knows?

That is why she dislikes dreams: they impose an unacceptable equivalence among the various periods of the same life, a leveling contemporaneity of everything a person has ever experienced; they discredit the present by denying it its privileged status.

Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

BMW." He smiles. "Little black beamer.

Like these girls care," Price snorts. "When I tell them what my annual income is, believe me, my behavior couldn't matter less.

Won't I be seeking some status of superiority?

Expensive depends on your means.

Would it … would it be possible for me to speak with them?" "No," the secondary said. In his exalted position, Iblis Ginjo was unaccustomed to hearing such a response.

Where is your real power? Is it in the title you carry? Is it in the possessions you have – a nice car, a big house, money in the bank? Is it in your status? No, your power is not outside you. It's within you. External power may feed your ego, but internal power is empowering; external power is temporary, internal power is permanent; external power is limited, internal power is limitless.

associate me with names that connoted fame, money, and power. These were the relationships she supported, also because they were less attainable. She loved that I had briefly dated John Travolta, Jimmy McNichol, Leif Garrett, Scott Baio, and John Kennedy.