status Quotes

“Things wabi-sabi have no need for the reassurance of status or the validation of market culture. They have no need for documentation of provenance.”

“You’ll just have to endure some things and give up other...everything must be paid for.”

“Wealth and place breed insolence that brings ruin in its train.”

“When she saw Tane, and the blue tunic of the High Sea Guard, the child knelt at once and set her forehead between her hands.”

“What I enjoy most…is living like an aristocrat without the burden of having to be one. Blue bloods are so inbred and weak. All those generations of importance and grandeur to live up to. No wonder they lack ambition. I don’t envy them.”

“Still methinks there is an air comes from her. What fine chisel could ever yet cut breath? Let no man mock me, for I will kiss her.”

“I understand. Queens of society can’t get on without money, so you mean to make a good match, and start in that way? Quite right and proper, as the world goes, but it sounds odd from the lips of one of your mother’s girls.”

“And he will be rich, and I shall like to be the greatest woman of the neighbourhood, and I shall be proud of having such a husband.”