Ovid Quotes

At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.

In Europe, you would almost never have people with large amounts of income being happy with a two-volume vehicle like a hatchback or a minivan. They want to structurally show their societal position, which is why three volumes are so popular. They show 'I'm part of that hierarchy.'

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.

There's an unspoken rule in affluent circles that suggests you can always define an individual's status by measuring his or her proximity to the most influential person in the room. And as the maxim goes, closer is always better.

The Social Register is a nice address book for some people, but that's about it.

I believe in status symbols.

A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.

Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.

Class is more important than a game.

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

You know our nation. If a citizen officer of one town has just one more silver button on his epaulette than another, great hue and cry arises and the important cause goes by the board …

Wealth has never been a sufficient source of honour in itself. It must be advertised, and the normal medium is obtrusively expensive.

I learned early that class is universally admired.

As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.

In New York, appearance is a form of currency or, at the very least, a calling card. One must look wealthy in order to be recognised as a person of worth.

Fashion Week is a great opportunity to make unimportant people feel like they own the world.

For the Anglo-Saxons, food determined a person's position in society.

as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.

Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance.

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

Rank is a great beautifier.

The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.

College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.

Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.

Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.