Lynne Truss Quotes

When you're young and arrogant and cocky and feel you're invincible, you say a lot of mean things to a lot of people because you think you're better, you don't need to deal with people.

They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.

Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.

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

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.

I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.

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.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

an intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of superiority.

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

I don't want you to think I'm better than people or that I know better than people.

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

For someone who’s made it clear that her life is superior to every other student’s at this school, you sure make it a habit of pursuing every facet of our boring, worthless lives.

Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.

All my compatriots are asses compared to me.

Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.

Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

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

But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves alone. We all take on Napoleon's features, And millions of our fellow creatures Are nothing more to us than tools... Since feelings are for freaks and fools. Eugene, of course, had keen perceptions And on the whole despised mankind, Yet wasn't, like so many, blind; And since each rule permits exceptions, He did respect a noble few, And, cold himself, gave warmth its due.

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

We had enough quite enough snobbery in this world without exporting it to the hereafter.

I'm not being condescending, I'm too busy thinking about far more important things you wouldn't understand.