Social Prestige Quotes

Once fraternities became tied to power and leadership, the powerful and would-be-leaders wanted to join.

I don't think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.

I was considered the luckiest of all the female gypsies since I landed the job as social secretary to Ambassador and Mrs. David Bruce at the American Embassy.

We didn't do cotillions or anything. My family made fun of the pageants.

Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.

Take pains to get on your side the young men of high rank, and keep the friendship of those whom you already have. They will contribute much to your political position.

The great Napoleon who devised the Legion of Honor, knew human weakness and recognized the irrepressible inclination of the citizens of a republic to covet the titles and insignia their democracy teaches them to disdain.

We're told that to be fly, you gotta have a fly car, the rims on your wheels, the fly jewels, and that to work a regular job and make legal money is uncool.

There are people who are socially ambitious. If you go back aways, the Sculls, for instance, had a lot of money and they were socially ambitious. If you get an old master, it's not going to do you any good socially.

Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

Chinese people as consumers, while they've always valued food and beverage for the health food qualities, they are also now wanting it in terms of other values: 'Does this speak about my position in society? Am I now middle-class, and does this matter to me?'

He whose honor is rooted in popular approval must, day by day, anxiously strive, act, and scheme in order to retain his reputation.

In modern civilized communities... the members of each stratum accept as their ideal of decency the scheme of life in vogue in the next higher stratum.

Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

I think being a Pink Lady, for me, meant that I was in the 'In Crowd.' I was one of the cooler kids.

Diamonds are intrinsically worthless, except for the deep psychological need they fill.

Many Indians turned to the gun for the same reason as did some Europeans: the prestige attached to them. Indians, like many members of the European elite, owned guns not simply because they served a function but as a symbol of power and wealth

I do not have Sheikh in front of my name.

The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.

The only real benefit of being famous is being recognized by head waiters and getting good tables at restaurants. The rest is part ego trip and part inconvenience.

If you're holding your iPhone, and it's the newest iteration of it, you're like, 'Oh, famous people have my phone. Captains of industry have my phone.' And that can be an intoxicating experience for someone who is going off to college for the first time.

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

You want to have a good job so you can make good money. You want to make good money so you can buy nice things. You want to have nice things so you can impress a nice woman.

I wasn't making any money, but I didn't feel unsuccessful because of that. You can do that in New York but not in Hollywood. In Hollywood, it is how much money you make.