Mark Morris Quotes

I think we could all be a bit more elitist.

...a blue blood, a snob

Not everyone can come and post on Forbes; it's a very distinguishing factor for us. We vet the folks who come on board.

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

Honestly, I'm a snobby person.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

He's so snobbish he has an unlisted zip-code.

The seeds of destruction lie in the definition of "chosen-ness" and can easily blossom into bigotry. It's not inevitable but it needs constant care to avoid.

My tastes are simple. I like only the very best.

As you probably know, I'm often accused of intellectual exhibitionism and all forms of elitism. Although I can understand this point of view, it's a rather wasted argument because, if we regard areas of information as being elite and therefore somehow not usable, it means our centre-ground of activity becomes very, very impoverished.

The game of investing is one of making better predictions about the future than other people. How are you going to do that? One way is to limit your tries to areas of competence. If you try to predict the future of everything, you attempt too much.

I remembered a time when my grandmother had asked me to explain television to her - the guts, not the funny pictures. There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. This be treason in an age when ignorance has come into its own and one man's opinion is as good as another's. But there it is. As Star says, the world is what it is - and doesn't forgive ignorance.

Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.

A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both. As in a concert all are musicians,-one plays one instrument, and one another, but none all in perfection.

Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.

I don't listen to people who can't do stuff that I do.

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.

Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.

Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form.

Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard."

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.