Prestige Seeking Quotes

Politics is the art of achieving power and prestige without merit.

Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.

I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all.

Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.

Men are apt to mistake, or at least to seem to mistake, their own talents, in hopes, perhaps, of misleading others to allow them that which they are conscious they do not possess. Thus lord Hardwicke valued himself more upon being a great minister of state, which he certainly was not, than upon being a great magistrate, which he certainly was.

I'm responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

The humanities have been forced to disguise, both from themselves and their students, why their subjects really matter, for the sake of attracting money and prestige in a world obsessed by the achievements of science.

It's all about winning trophies really.

I loathe anyone impressed by fame or money.

We live increasingly in a system in which little direct attention is paid to the object, the function, the program, the task, the need; but immense attention to the role, the procedure, prestige, and profit.

Listen, I would love to win an Emmy at some stage or another. I can't pretend not to.

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame

Even the best scientists are often insecure and feel the need for recognition.

Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.