Robert Eggers Quotes

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

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

I was a sort of serious little dude - snobby.

I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.

Snobbery just inhibits you.

I think we could all be a bit more elitist.

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

There are people who are just very, very sniffy and snobby and have always sort of looked down their noses at me.

Don't get me wrong - intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche.

He is arrogance with a capital A.

an intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of superiority.

I don't mind snobs, if they have a reason to be a snob.

I don't want to be elitist.

It makes me sad there is still some intellectual snobbery out there.

This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!

... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.

I'm not a snob. Ask anybody-well, anybody who matters.

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

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.

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

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

You’ll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don’t want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.” He held out his hand to shake Harry’s, but Harry didn’t take it. “I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, thanks,” he said coolly.

I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable.