Selected status quotes

1. It's nice to be important, but it's important to always be nice.

2. Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.

3. Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be.

4. Even with a round table, some people always seem able to sit at the head of it.

5. I will never be below the title.

6. Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.

7. I add status to any tournament I attend.

8. Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

9. Who in the blue hell are you?

10. Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

11. Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.

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

13. In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

14. Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

15. I still lack to a considerable degree that naturally superior kind of manner that I would dearly like to possess.

16. Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

17. A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

18. Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

19. I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

20. I could have been a Judge, but I never had the Latin for the judgin'. I never had it, so I'd had it, as far as being a judge was concerned... I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.

21. Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.

22. The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

23. How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god.

24. Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.

25. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

26. Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

27. In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.

28. None think the great unhappy but the great.

29. I've always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it's been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you've given something planetary status it's kind of mean to take it away.

30. A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.

31. I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?

32. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

33. Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman 'other' or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

34. So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet - big deal.

35. The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.

36. 'Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.'

37. Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and rever persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

38. Know your role and shut your mouth!

39. These reasonings are unconnected: 'I am richer than you, therefore I am better'; 'I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better.' The connection is rather this: 'I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;' 'I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours.' But you, after all, are neither property nor style.(44)

40. The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a contempt for mere external show.

41. Richard Feynman became so exasperated [at the National Academy of Sciences] that he resigned his membership, saying that he saw no point in belonging to an organization that spent most of its time deciding who to let in.

42. He is a small man in search of a balcony.

43. With Bill Clinton in the hospital, that makes Al Gore acting former president.

44. My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character [as an author], he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed.

45. Sir Leoline, the Baron rich, Hath a toothless mastiff bitch.

46. Men that look upon my outside, perusing only my condition, and fortunes, do err in my altitude; for I am above Atlas his shoulders.

47. I can't see the sense in it [his honorary CBE] really. It makes me a Commander of the British Empire. They might as well make me a Commander of Milton Keynes - at least that exists.

48. No amount of status or reward will compensate for your inadequacy as a human being.

49. I was ne'er so thrummed since I was a gentleman.

50. It's good to be king, if just for a while. To be there in velvet, yeah, to give 'em a smile.

51. 'But now please stand in recognition of the World Wrestling Federation Champion' (before Bret's entrance in WM12)

52. The poet is a god, or, the young poet is a god. The old poet is a tramp.

53. You don't talk to me that way! I am a division manager! I DRIVE A DODGE STRATUS!

54. I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.

55. We're worth a lot of dough. Whatever you see is antiques. This thing here. This is from - I don't remember exactly. I think it's the Renaissance or the Magna Carta or something. But that's where it's from.

56. To be on a pedestal is to be in a corner.

57. Must is not a word to be used to princes! Little man, little man, if your late father were here he would never dare utter such a word.

58. Better to be a begger and single than a queen and married.

59. 'Now my wife don't like them prices you gotta do better than that. I'm a veteran' (from 'Kissel Sails')

60. The arguments of the strong are valued more than the strongest arguments.

61. Who is The Rock? Who is The Rock? Oh, you should know who The Rock is, you interrupt The Rock, The Rock'll be the guy to get in that ring, tighten his shoes and whoop your ass! Or maybe you don't remember, you and The Rock, Triple H and The Rock, well The Rock, let The Rock break it down for you: The Rock, the most electrifying man in sports and entertainment; The Rock...The Rock, brahma bull, great one, People's Champ, and oh - to say the least, The Rock is something you're not, Undisputed Champion, so shut up, bitch

62. 'T is a very fine thing to be father-in-law To a very magnificent three-tailed Bashaw!

63. It will be impossible to achieve this (keeping the people together) if the elders and chiefs have their own way and are too proud of their chiefly status to not bring themselves down to the people.

64. Well since Rock's baby left him... He found a new place to dwell... It's down at the end of Jabroni Drive at... Smackdown Hotellalalalalaaaa!

65. 'Sir Edmund Hillary : King Of The World' in NZEdge

66. I also am of noble blood, or so it seems to me. - Orlo

67. you put the money in the benz, cause bitch I'm barely broke

68. sincerely yours/I'm a thug, the product of a broken home

69. I don't know why I'm even on this track/Y'all niggas ain't even on my level

70. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

71. Okay, that does it: You are out of Ted's of Beverly Hills, you'll never get a seat in my place.

72. Phil, I have a private jet. He's standing there telling this girl he flies first class... I'm Ted Bell. I have a private jet. He's not impressing anybody.

73. I'm offering people an opportunity to ride in my Z3 - weekends only - I'll give you a ride around Beverly Hills, I'll pull up in front of some of the stores on Rodeo and give people the impression you can afford to shop there, at $200 an hour.

74. Oh, you're sitting there staring at your cheaply manicured nails in your Ford Taurus...

75. Maide, wydowe, or wyffe.

76. 'Here comes the money!'

77. There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

78. my alias is Boss

79. I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.

80. Friendless, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

81. Nagorno-Karabakh should be given a status different from what it has now. Otherwise, all the talks are useless.

82. 'I've done you a piece of good service, Nancy,' he began: then seeing me, he acknowledged my presence by a slight bow. I should have been invisible to Hatfield, or any other gentleman of those parts. 'I've delivered your cat,' he continued, 'from the hands, or rather the gun, of Mr. Murray's gamekeeper.'

83. Once a King or Queen in Narnia, always a King or Queen in Narnia. (ch. 17)

84. I've been too fucking busy - or vice versa.

85. The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.

86. Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car - we often see it when driving to Windsor Castle. (2001)

87. Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major.

88. Pour s'etablir dans le monde, on fait tout ce que l'on peut pour y paraitre etabli.

89. La plupart des gens ne jugent des hommes que par la vogue qu'ils ont, ou par leur fortune.

90. Il y a du merite sans elevation, mais il n'y a point d'elevation sans quelque merite.

91. My dear Duke, I know nothing of the joys of homo-sexuality. You must speak to my friend Oscar about that. And yet, if Shakespeare had asked me, I would have had to submit.

92. Son, only a pimp in a Louisiana whore house carries pearl handled revolvers, these are ivory.

93. I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

94. The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part,and some of his limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vilest stall in town.

95. There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

96. Cook: We have some breast of flamingo and gazelle steaks.

97. Vous etes empereur, Seigneur, et vous pleurez!

98. Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

99. I am a young executive. No cuffs than mine are cleaner; I have a Slimline brief-case and I use the firm's Cortina.

100. If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.