Status Quotes

The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.

If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.

Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye.What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high,And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher,Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this. In a position of wealth and honor, he does what is proper to a position of wealth and honor. In a poor and low position, he does what is proper to a poor and low position.

I know a member of one of New York's first families (first as you drive up Tenth Avenue)

Better live a King, than a Prince.

Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets one's heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he or she is automatically involved in fear of losing status.

We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.

He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody.

Some glory in their birth , some in their skill , Some in their wealth , some in their bodies' force , Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill; Some in their hawks and hounds , some in their horse ; And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure , Wherein it finds a joy above the rest .

For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.

Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.

Hundreds and hundreds of beautiful horses in the parade and a man without a silver saddle is a vagrant.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.

Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee.

Though a non-co-operator, I shall gladly subscribe to a bill to make it criminal for anybody to call me mahatma and to touch my feet.

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.