George Ade Quotes

I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.

Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it.

All serious elite institutions, from the great London clubs to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, have always made sure that most people can't get into them. That's the point.

The Clique: The only thing harder then getting in is staying in.

Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

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

I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.

All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.

Stay out of the loop, the club, the inner circle.

Language does not make one an elite.

From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.

Hollywood is just like high school. The popular people only like the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren't nice - or they're nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.

'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.

… an army of Gatsbys wanting not to overturn the social order but only to belong to the upper crust.

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

I'm not clique-y.

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

The great would have none great and the little all little.

There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.

Rich people live in places so removed from everybody else, they operate in circles so incestuous and so closed, they're off on islands. To try to understand their indifference is to understand also their separation from the rest of society.

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

In the field of snobbery, Australia is an underdeveloped country; even a few British ex-colonies, regarded as under developed in all other respects, could export a great deal of snobbery to Australia and still have enough to spare for their own, internal needs.

Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.