Edna Ferber Quotes

There's no snobbery in me.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

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

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

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

… when we know a thing we have only scorn for other people who don’t happen to know it.

It makes me sad there is still some intellectual snobbery out there.

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.

Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

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

I lived in a town called New Canaan, which is just outside of Connecticut, where they are far too snobby to even mention celebrities. Many American towns are famous for things like, "See the World's Largest Ball of String!" I think my town's would probably have to be "Most Pretentious People".

Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors.

Perfectionism may look good in his shiny shoes, but he’s a little bit of an asshole and no one invites him to their pool parties.

All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs.

There are some people, who I'll charitably call snobs, who are dismissive of any conversation that doesn't begin with the full level of complexity. That's just not how the world works.

A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.

Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?