Quotes About Prestige

In Australia, the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle.

When I was playing, it wasnt even close. Arsenal were the team to beat when you turned off the North Circular.

If you're a Supreme Court justice, the American people have elevated you to one of the highest offices in the land out of the goodness of their heart and out of deference to your legal wisdom. You get a lifetime appointment, limitless prestige, a great office, and what I have to assume is a very comfortable chair.

I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.

I hope to work sometime for an absolute top club. It should be no surprise that Manchester United are a dream club for me.

I'm not sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize or not, but the Nobel Committee called me, and, 'You got the Nobel Prize.' So, I was so, so happy, and I was so surprised.

It was surreal to think the Queen of England not only knew who I was but thought enough of what I do to give me an award.

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.

Quarafon; le Vicaire-Général; el Alcalde; el viejo Seigneur; el Idiota de los Salones. Todos estos títulos fueron adquiridos por un hombre que se mostraba indiferente a los tratamientos honoríficos. «Los honores deshonran; el título degrada; el cargo embrutece.»

pre-Islamic period jahiliyyah, which is usually translated as "the time of ignorance." But the primary meaning of the root JHL is "irascibility"—an acute sensitivity to honor and prestige, excessive arrogance, and, above all, a chronic tendency to violence and retaliation.4

Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.

Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.

Yale men do not like to be told anything by people who didn't go to Yale. The closest I came to Yale was once I had one of their padlocks.

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.

At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.

I'll know I'm famous when I have five Ferraris, seven houses, Cameron Diaz on my arm and a little man following me with a huge bag of money.

I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'