Quotes About Prestige

The correct British peer would no more dream of using his own title than he would of using his own umbrella, although he carries both and is proud of their age.

When famous people come up to you it's a bit weird, but it's an honour, really, when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit.

his association with the Rockefellers had inflated his already healthy sense of self to a point of bloated grandiosity, and

The French like anyone with money and power. - Mikhail Abramov

Remember, darling, one normally doesn't part with the Rembrandt because one is tired of looking at it. One parts with because one needs money. And the last thing a rich person wants is to tell the world that he's not rich anymore. - Julian Isherwood

Nothing should be of higher value to the reflective Christian in difficult circumstances than an unqualified desire to see truth triumph. One should wish passionately that it prevail, should love it more than one's own prestige or sense of security.

We got to do a few things with President Clinton. To be invited to Washington again to play with Ashanti and all those other cool people there in front of President Bush and the rest of the world feels awesome. I'm really looking forward to going.

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fames proud temple shines afar?

Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing

What the winner of a finite game wins is a title. A title is the acknowledgment of others that one has been the winner of a particular game. I cannot entitle myself. Titles are theatrical, requiring an audience to bestow and respect them.

What one wins in a finite game is a title. A title is the acknowledgment of others that one has been the winner of a particular game. Titles are public. They are for others to notice. I expect others to address me according to my titles, but I do not address myself with them—unless, of course, I address myself as an other. The effectiveness of a title depends on its visibility, its noticeability to others.

I hate Gucci, said Francis. Do you? said Henry, glancing up from his reverie. Really? I think it's rather grand. Come on, Henry. Well, it's so expensive, but it's so ugly too, isn't it? I think they make it ugly on purpose. And yet people buy it out of sheer perversity. I don't see what you think is grand about that. Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale, said Henry. this is by god not donna tartt

Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.

Flare riding is one of the most exotic and exhilarating sports in existence, and those who can dare and afford to do it are among the most lionized men in the Galaxy. It is also of course stupefyingly dangerous—those who don't die riding invariably die of sexual exhaustion at one of the Daedalus Club's Après-Flare parties.

To one side, a vintage Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith, polished to a gem-like brilliance, sat on a flatbed trailer, ready to be taken to its new owner. Constance looked from Pendergast to the Rolls and back again. "I really don't need two, you know," he said.

Aloysius Xingu Leng Pendergast.

I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.

Nobody liked Herr Professor Doktor Major Melcher. For one thing, he had too many titles.

To be captain of such a huge club like Chelsea is a great personal achievement.

Companies want to be able to hire employees with an elite university diploma to make their personnel lists look impressive.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, 'Khaled, you can't get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.' So I went and bought a Phantom.

Fame is an interesting phenomenon.

I've got a better background than anyone else who married into the royal family since the war, excepting Prince Philip.

What's it like finding out Denzel Washington wants you to direct his next movie? It's like getting a phone call from Muhammad Ali or Michael Jordan saying they want you to coach them.