Horace Quotes

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

I don't want to be elitist.

Elegance thrives on exclusion.

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

Snobbery just inhibits you.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

I try to not be or associate with elitists.

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

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

Talent is very dangerous. It alienates people.

...a blue blood, a snob

A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate.

Polo is a quintessentially English sport. It stands for quality and sophistication and is recognised all over the world as such.

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

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

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.

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.

Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.

Everyone hates the best clubs, it is as simple as that.

I am marooned on a Crag of Superiority in an ocean of soldiers.

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

Anti-Semitism or discrimination of any kind has no place in our society.

I do not want to have anything to do with anybody who is racist or bigoted or anti-Semitic.

I really hate racism because I saw people denied possibilities.