"Social status" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and will speak ill-naturedly of him if he refuses to fall into their net. At others, sympathy with a sufferer leads to a flirtation during convalescence, and often a word spoken in jest in order to cheer is taken seriously by romantic girls who believe that to marry a doctor is to attain social status and distinction. ...
— The Seven Secrets • William Le Queux
... weeks after the arrival of Sally and Janet, he had chosen to take his meals in the kitchen—where all meals were served—after they had finished. His, was a bed-sitting-room, the only one the house contained, and, in social status, the possession of it lifted him in rank above any of the other lodgers who shared the general sitting-room with the landlady, Mrs. Hewson, and ...
— Sally Bishop - A Romance • E. Temple Thurston
... and officials, and were invested with human interest. She was made to see their motives, their hopes, fears, ambitions; she opened her eyes in surprise at his knowledge of prominent people, their social status, relations, and family connection. A genial light of human interest played over most of his words, yet now and then they touched on the depths of tragedy; again he seemed to be indulging in sublimated ...
— An Original Belle • E. P. Roe
... must repeat the warning already given against the habit of dealing only with subjects interesting to or connected with the female sex. Women's papers are sharply divided into two classes—those which appeal to women of education and breeding, and those which appeal to women of a lower social status. To the former group belong the Queen, the Lady's Pictorial, the Gentlewoman (sixpence), Hearth and Home and the Lady (threepence), and Woman (one penny). To the latter belong Home Chat, Home Notes, and ...
— Journalism for Women - A Practical Guide • E.A. Bennett
... Commission affords the following instructive account of the difference in the moral and social status between the prostitute of ...
— Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers • Elizabeth Wheeler Andrew and Katharine Caroline Bushnell
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