Alex Pareene Quotes

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.

Washington's Alfalfa Club dinner is a populist's nightmare.

I think there are people who use classical music to say, 'I am better than you, because I know all the rules and you don't.' You're not allowed to have fun or entertain.

I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.

Washington is a city of arrogance.

Two sentiments inherent in power never fail to produce this moral corruption; they are: contempt for the masses and the overestimation of one's own merits.

The elitist way of looking on the runway, frankly, seems old fashioned.

Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.

I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I come and visit? Years later, the dean of students at Harvard told me that my letter had been posted in the dean’s office for the amusement of the staff. Thus did I learn the measure of institutional arrogance.

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.'

If you want to read anything nasty about me, just go to the backpacker websites. There's this kind of elitist branch where they really believe that I had no business going backpacking.

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

Success hath made me wanton.

Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.

The Brits are ghastly. I never would accept a Brit. It would be like Laurence Olivier being happy getting a TV Times award.

Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on... mass murderers.

I'm sure wine snobs look at me and think, how dare you.

[democrats] have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans.

Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.