Alexandra Wentworth Quotes

Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn't know anything until I went to Oxford.

I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.

There's no snobbery in me.

I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road. If I don't fade into a room at White's, that's fine. My father was chairman of Brooks' and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.

It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.

George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s).

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

The Delhi elite doesn't like me because I'm smarter than them.

Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

We had enough quite enough snobbery in this world without exporting it to the hereafter.

The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

To be sure, many cultural elite pastimes are easily mocked and annoying.

I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture - never fashion.

I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for some years head of pediatrics at Provident, the nation's oldest black hospital. My mother was a social worker who left her job when she married, and throughout my childhood, she was a full-time wife, mother, and socialite.

Being bored by clothes shopping feels smart and intellectual: 'Ooh, get me, insufficiently entertained by racks of skinny jeans; my mind is on higher things.'

I believe that narcissistic personality disorder is a middle- and upper-class disease because you have to have the means to indulge it; you need money and power. Narcissists create havoc around them. You can't get away with that doing a menial job.

The Gandhi family is a pampered lot. They have only dealt with people at their beck and call.

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

I came from an affluent family, am well-known and well-read.

Inverted snobbery is just as dangerous as snobbery itself, you know - that pride in having nothing.

I tend to read quite serious things in order to try and appear superior.

At the other end of the spectrum, George Gideon Oliver King Rameses Osborne, the fourteen-year-old novelty Chancellor and future baronet of Ballentaylor and Ballylemon - a man so posh he probably weeps champagne.