Social Climbing Quotes

“To move from poverty to middle class or middle class to wealth, an individual must give up relationships for achievement (at least for some period of time). The issue is time. There is not enough time to have both.”
― Ruby K. Payne, A Framework for Understanding Poverty

“He won't be happy until he's banging the next big thing. And while he'd prefer a female, I think he'd fuck anything that moves if he thinks it'll ease his climb to the top. Male, female, or small farm animal.”
― J. Kenner, Claim Me

“When she was drinking his liquor and smoking his cigars, Charity couldn't help warming to Sir Humphrey. She almost forgot what a crashing bore he really was.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr Wrong

“Education is the way out of the poverty trap. It shouldn't be the poverty trap itself and make those trying to better themselves incur massive student debt.”
― Stewart Stafford

“for everybody must now 'move in a circle', - to the prevalence of which rotatory motion, is perhaps to be attributed the giddiness and false steps of many.”
― Jane Austen

“Why do these big old country houses always have family portraits in the dining room? Do you really want to eat with someone's gloomy great-grandfather looking down on you?”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“And there is nothing viler than the desire to know great people, - people of great rank, I should say; nothing worse than the hunting of titles and worshipping of wealth.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“Mr. Jha was learning that in this neighborhood, your guard was a direct representation of how much was worth guarding in your home. Guards with guns meant bricks of gold somewhere in the house. Maybe he would also get a guard with a gun, Mr. Jha thought; it would be cheaper than buying bricks of gold.”
― Diksha Basu, The Windfall

“It's a mistake to climb to a higher place, from which you'll just have to fall, sooner or later. "No place to fall" is the life of a home-leaver.”
― Kodo Sawaki