George Burns Quotes

I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.

I just am a snob when it comes to humor.

I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever.

I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.

There's something awful about Oxford, I think. It's such a little ghetto.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

I don't listen to people who can't do stuff that I do.

I think everyone's inherently snobbish. Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, 'Well, if everyone likes it it can't be that good.' Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.

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

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.

I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.

I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

The classical music world is so snobbish.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

Just because you're a luxury brand doesn't mean you have to have an attitude.

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

The general consumption of any commodity by the vulgar lessens, on the contrary, in many minds, the pleasure it would otherwise give. It brings down the individual, in this particular, to a level with the lowest

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

To be sure, many cultural elite pastimes are easily mocked and annoying.

I went to Yale for undergrad.

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