Ryan Fitzpatrick Quotes

Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.

When I was growing up, I got a lot of, 'Oh, well, she bought the nicest horse, so of course she's going to win.' And I dealt with a lot of that.

Yeah, it is particularly upsetting to be called, whatever it was, sneery, or a snob, given the background I have.

Look I'm politically correct, I went to a great school, I was a good student, look, I'm a smart guy.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

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

I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

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

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,' by which they meant poor southerners who didn't go to Harvard. I'm not sure why that makes them trash.

You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business.

Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football.

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

I am criticized for getting jobs because of my name, but I only use it when I have to.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

There's no Peter York Foundation, and you're no one without one.

Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.

Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

Better educated than wealthy