Quotes About Prestige

My mom can't even believe they got into Brandywine Hunt. My dad will be so pissed.

Never slam a car door. According to the Westchester elite, it's a heinous crime, as heartless as kicking a puppy.

The man corrected him. Honor, he said firmly. I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.

I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.

Birthmother was an important job, if lacking in prestige.

Honor,' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.

This rule is that people always think that if they are very expert at something, that thing must therefore be extremely important.

But the young men of all tribes were eager to take scalps and the prestige that followed.

notoriety is not real glory.

He saw that money could bring majesty in the moral as well as secular sphere, which excited him more than fancy estates or clothes.

Only the prestigious Wall Street firms such as J. P. Morgan and Company or Kuhn, Loeb could tap the foreign and domestic capital needed to execute these transactions.

Senior countered that "the prestige of his going to Hot Springs for twenty-one days as our family physician Ã¢â'¬Â¦ might be worth a great deal more to him than this loss of patients.

All democratic experiments, all revolutions, all demands for equality have so far, in every instance, stopped short of sexual equality. Every society has in its prestige structures a series of subtle, interacting codes of dominance that always, everywhere, finally rank men higher than women.

Arrogance follows distribution strength.

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

You can judge the success of a man by his bodyguards!

In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person's yard.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

The limousine is the ultimate ego trip, the supreme sign of success. It shouts: Hey, this guy is really and truly Mr Big.

To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

What my family seeks in this marriage is prestige; what I seek is happiness.

The prestige of royal power has evaporated, but the majesty of the law has failed to take its place. People nowadays despise authority yet still fear it, and fear extracts from them more than they previously gave out of respect and love.

The prestige that attached to old things having disappeared, birth, condition, and profession no longer distinguish men or hardly distinguish them; there remains scarcely anything but money that creates very visible differences between them and that can set off some from their peers. The distinction that arises from wealth is increased by the disappearance and diminution of all the others.