Moby Quotes

In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.

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

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

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.

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

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

When I die, I want to be the only person in the world not to have seen 'The Sound Of Music.'

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

The art house is an elitist idea.

Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.

The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.

We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy and art.

Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.

I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.

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

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

an intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of superiority.

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.

The Delhi elite doesn't like me because I'm smarter than them.

I don't mean to brag, but my water filter curates tap water, offering moi the finest combination of H, 2, and O available.

I kind of want to take the writer down a peg. I think there are a lot of pretentious writers in this business, which I am certainly one, in certain cases.

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

There was a time that I would have carried a briefcase and worn a monocle were it to even border on socially acceptable.

For years, young adults have adopted extremely liberal world views in their attempts to be different, ultimately failing to see the irony that they've all become the same.