Famous quotes containing the words man and/or standing:
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods. Accept their coldness as an omen of grace with the loftier deities, and allow them all their privilege.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)