And death makes equal the high and low.
The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.
During the four years I had spent in New York, I had achieved top status as a model and had worked for the best photographers and designers in the world. I had grown used to hearing that I was exotic and high-fashion.
Every time I fly first class, I'm like, 'Damn dude, this is sick!'
Men in great places are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.
1st Baron Verulam
It was - it's always very nice to be somebody rather grand.
For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state.
Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable.
has no equal in the world, excepting those only which are held by crowned heads; nor is the royal authority in all cases to be compared to it.
The Power of the President in the new Constitution
The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.
I was born in a suit.
Bran was stripping her futon down to the bare mattress when she entered her apartment. It was sort of like watching the president mowing the White House lawn or taking out the trash.
When you get to the level that I'm at, often you are a very lonely man.
[Characterizing Republicans:] ... the Grey Poupon crowd, the Gucci-shoe wearing, Mercedes-driving, polo-playing, jacuzzi-soaking, Perrier-drinking, Aspen-skiing, ritzy rich.
as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.
He is lofty, and I am eminent.
I am at the top of the pyramid, but I am not stupid, and I realise that one small step could see me fall down very quickly.
Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.
I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.
I have been around a long time and shared some very elite company.
I want to have a catalogue or a share in a company. I'm trying to take my family's name from lower-middle class to aristocracy. I have my sights set high.
I used to have about a hundred suits in my late twenties and early thirties when my stock was riding high and I was rich.
High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.
