Gene Wilder Quotes

Reasons are for peasants.

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

There are people who are just very, very sniffy and snobby and have always sort of looked down their noses at me.

You're just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don't know what the hell you're talking about.

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.

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

I've always had a way with the little people, making it a point to humor them without looking down my nose at their wasted empty lives.

I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

What you're saying is that 'I, the superior elite, will take care of you.' Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can't be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white people for two contradictory reasons: a) he constantly proclaims belief in human equality, but they don't ; b) he has a high IQ, but they don't.

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

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

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

I've had tweets questioning whether I really did go to university because surely I would have lost my accent if I did; a letter suggesting, very politely, that I get correction therapy; and an email saying I should get back to my council estate and leave the serious work to the clever folk.

People in Hollywood can condescend to the way a lot of other people are living.

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

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

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

Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.

I've had my fill of these city guttersnipes--all that scavenging scum! They're the sort of people, who, if the gates of heaven opened to them, all they'd feel would be a draught.