Jerry Seinfeld Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

There's no snobbery in me.

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

an intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of superiority.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Tony Harrison is not on my level.

Honestly, I'm a snobby person.

I meet people who are so sniffy about daytime TV.

People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.

Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.

The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.

I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English ‘education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school — I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave.

The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

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

In the field of snobbery, Australia is an underdeveloped country; even a few British ex-colonies, regarded as under developed in all other respects, could export a great deal of snobbery to Australia and still have enough to spare for their own, internal needs.