"Social status" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Boy Scout movement at once occurred to me, but promptly I put it from me. From a cursory investigation I gleaned that no distinctions of social caste were drawn among the Boy Scouts; that almost any boy of a given age, regardless of the social status of his parents, might aspire to membership, or even to office, providing he but complied with certain tests—in short, that the Boy Scouts as at present constituted were, as the saying ...
— Fibble, D. D. • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
... in the social or business life of the Jew, so far as your personal experience has gone, any different standard of conduct than prevails among Christians of the same social status? ...
— Over the Teacups • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... which her staircase was adorned, by the excellent quality of the champagne, and the inexhaustible supply of oysters. At the musical evening the music was as admirably rendered as it was completely neglected. And at both parties only those people were present as to whose social status and absolute "rightness" there could be no question. Indeed the dancer, whose foot had been trodden upon at the former, might console herself with the thought that none but a noble boot had caused her pain; while at the latter the sounds of heavy breathing, which mingled inharmoniously with Mlle. ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, April 18, 1891 • Various
... attorney and landowner. Evidently this constitutes a social status that merits consideration from the law; but the moral state, what is it? You ...
— Conscience, Complete • Hector Malot
... upon her going out to the stable and sniffing in the coach by way of evidence, and she would sniff admiringly and unenviously. She knew her place. The social status of every one in Banbridge was defined quite clearly. Those who were in society wore their honors easily and unquestioned, and those who were not went their uncomplaining ways ...
— The Debtor - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
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