Carine Roitfeld Quotes

an intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of superiority.

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

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

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

I'm not being condescending, I'm too busy thinking about far more important things you wouldn't understand.

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

Washington is a city of arrogance.

I kind of want to take the writer down a peg. I think there are a lot of pretentious writers in this business, which I am certainly one, in certain cases.

Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors.

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

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

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

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

There is a bit of arrogance with 'Hollywood' types that doesn't sit well with game developers.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

The Scottish nobility has a feckless arrogant conceit of their greatness and power.

Unbridled arrogance is worse than pride; for if pride will not break a superior, arrogance will not brook and equal.

Arrogance is a creature. It does not have senses. It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

Barton Fink is just too self-important as an artist to get much sympathy.