Libba Bray Quotes

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.

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.

Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

Draco's not really a bully. He's not exactly the biggest, strongest guy in the world. He's more a rich, snobby person. He thinks of himself as really cool.

Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.

The Kennedys tried to avoid using the big U-shaped table, but when they couldn't, they had several tricks - including keeping the flowers simple - to keep it from appearing overly stiff and formal.

I had this attitude, that Silicon Valley obnoxious attitude, that I know what I'm doing, and the rest was going to be pretty easy.

... 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.

Table the label and wear your own name.

He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.

If you have to ask then you don't deserve an answer.

Honestly, I'm a snobby person.

The Dream couldn't tell you the vibe in the NXT locker room, because, quite frankly, I have my own. When you are a Superstar as high up on the totem pole as The Velveteen Dream, you have those luxuries.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.

The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

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

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

High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.

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.

My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.