Quotes about Status

It is remarkable, I have since thought, how once a man has a few coins, no matter how he came by them, he thinks right away that he is entitled to them, and to whatever they can buy, and fancies himself cock of the walk.

Live performance had suffered in the sabotage panics of the early twenty-first century — no one during those decades had wanted to form part of a large group at a public event in a dark, easily destructible walled space, or no one with any cool or status.

The status quo doesn't shift because you're right. It shifts because the culture changes. And the engine of culture is status.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

Upper classes are a nation's past, the middle class its future.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

It shows him to be a very wealthy man. How did he acquire wealth? He is unmarried. His younger brother is a station master in the west of England. His chair is worth seven hundred a year.

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

I have been Lady C since 1974 when I married my husband, Lord Colin Campbell. We may be divorced, but I kept the title - not because it is specifically important to me but simply because it is my name.

Current idols are more subtle than ancient ones because today's false gods are often outside the field of religion. People, possessions, status, and self-aggrandizement are some of the most popular deities today. Beware of bowing down before these things. False gods never satisfy; instead, they stir up lust for more and more.

If we add all this together, we get something like this: a "blessed" person is someone who, because of a heart for God, is promised and enjoys God's favor regardless of that person's status or countercultural condition.