Dorothy Parker Quotes

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.

There's no snobbery in me.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

... more snobbish than their English butlers.

Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

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.

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.

Money doesn't buy class.

Aristocracy is naturally abhorrent to me, and adored equality is my idol.

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

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

I know places you better speak low if you've been to college. Men will come across the room and cold-deck you if you hold your glass wrong.

I was a houseman, the lowest. I was just above - in the hierarchy of jobs, I was just above the Puerto Rican dishwashers - just above, so I felt superior to them.

It was hugely helpful to me, being South African. I have never felt uncomfortable in posh society because I don't see what it is that I'm meant to be bowing the knee about.

Golf has been the sport of the social elite, with lawyers and doctors. But I have never been embarrassed by the looks I've been given by others. I have sometimes been looked at with condescension and it still happens now, but I know how to deal with it - I know whose opinions count.

Character and class are character and class. Either you have it or you don't.

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.

Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil

I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.

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

He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.

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

An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.

She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. How had that pursuit, reading the novels that others took as their leisure, let her think she was superior to anyone else?