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Status Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can’t afford one.”

J.P. Morgan

2. “A poor relation – is the most irrelevant thing in nature.”

Charles Lamb

3. “A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity.”

Charles Lamb

4. “We are ashamed at the sight of a monkey – somehow as we are shy of poor relations.”

Charles Lamb

5. “Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.”

Plutarch

6. “Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.”

Chanakya

7. “A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.”

Chanakya

8. “The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.”

Stendhal

9. “Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.”

Seneca

10. “True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.”

Seneca

11. “People creating wealth will always be attacked by people playing status games.”

Naval Ravikant

12. “Status is your ranking in the social hierarchy.”

Naval Ravikant

13. “Birth is nothing where virtue is not.”

Moliere

14. “Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion – painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.”

Chuck Palahniuk

15. “Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.”

Francis Bacon

16. “Finally, when he crowns it off by becoming a senator, then he becomes a slave in fine company, then he experiences the poshest and most prestigious form of enslavement.”

Epictetus

17. “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.”

Will Rogers

18. “You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town.”

George Saunders

19. “What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!”

Alexander Pope

20. “Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.”

Edmund Burke

21. “To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power and status. Power lies in holding a formal position of authority or controlling important resources. Status involves being respected or admired.”

Adam Grant

22. “It’s always a mistake to be too focused on prestige and status…I would always be long substance, short status.”

Peter Thiel

23. “A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

24. “People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.”

Aldous Huxley

25. “Who has but once dined his friends, has tasted what it is to be Caesar.”

Herman Melville

26. “Money is the medium by which earthly success is measured.”

George S. Clason

27. “Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.”

Elbert Hubbard

28. “If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.”

Jane Austen

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

Peter Drucker

30. “No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.”

Peter Drucker

31. “The paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice.”

Dave Ramsey

32. “We’re apes. We think we’re all sophisticated with our toaster ovens and designer footwear, but we’re just a bunch of finely ornamented apes. And because we are apes, we instinctually measure ourselves against others and vie for status. The question is not whether we evaluate ourselves against others; rather, the question is by what standard do we measure ourselves?”

Mark Manson

33. “You'll never see the president carry his own luggage, and why? Because even though we know he has luggage, it would reduce his stature if he was too much like us. We need to think of our leaders as being above us, even though they must still relate to us.”

Simon Sinek

34. “If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.”

Marilyn Monroe

35. “I don’t know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can’t stand to be invited someplace that isn’t full of other important people. They don’t mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.”

Marilyn Monroe

36. “Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous.”

Benjamin Franklin

37. “A kung fu man who was really good was not proud at all. Pride emphasizes the superiority of one’s status. There has to be fear and insecurity in pride because when you aim at being highly esteemed and achieve such status, you automatically start to worry about losing status.”

Bruce Lee

38. “Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.”

Oscar Wilde

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