David Talbot Quotes

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.

The classical music world is so snobbish.

I can do posh.

A man of refined taste and judgment.

I like when my man is worldly, knows the finer things in life, is well traveled, educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.

I like to think of myself as classy.

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

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

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

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

You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far.

I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.

I am a classy dame.

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

Christopher Hitchens, the late essayist and sot, was a man who purposefully cultivated a lot of friends of a certain type - rich, self-important, generally dim-witted and hence easy for a well-spoken Oxbridge debater to impress - and he electrified Washington D.C. society mainly by not being a completely charmless bore.

You can't buy class.

It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.

My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard."

Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

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

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.