Rufus Wainwright Quotes

Maybe I'm an elitist, but I don't feel like I am.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.

...a blue blood, a snob

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

I don't want to be elitist.

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? But it's only a form of despair.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

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.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

I try to not be or associate with elitists.

Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

I don't believe in honors - it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.

Everyone has the impulse to be elite.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talent.

No social class, intellectual category or art form is immune to the snob virus.

Honestly, I'm a snobby person.

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

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

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.

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

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

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.