Herbert Sebastian Agar Quotes

I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

There's no snobbery in me.

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.

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

There is a bit of arrogance with 'Hollywood' types that doesn't sit well with game developers.

Don't get me wrong - intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

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

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

Washington is a city of arrogance.

You aren't that big a hot shot that we'd build this for you.

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

Inverted snobbery is just as dangerous as snobbery itself, you know - that pride in having nothing.

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

... 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.

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

Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

We had enough quite enough snobbery in this world without exporting it to the hereafter.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.