Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

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

This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!

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.

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance.

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

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

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

I think we could all be a bit more elitist.

Because I have a little bit more, that means I'm better than you? No. Unacceptable.

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

I try to not be or associate with elitists.

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

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.

We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company.

…an aristocratic, arbitrary ass.

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

Like power in any shape, a full stomach always holds a dose of insolence, and this expresses itself first of all in the well-fed lecturing the starving.

The Scottish nobility has a feckless arrogant conceit of their greatness and power.