Elitist Attitude Quotes

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

'Worshipping in private,' as Obama does, comes off as just another form of annoying elitism.

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.

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

There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.

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.

You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said.

Being an actor is looked at like a prolonged game of dress-up. America puts movie stars on pedestals. In college, it's the flip side. I sometimes have to justify my job to my professors because they're focused on intellect and ideas.

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

Most people are not intellectuals — a fact that intellectuals have terrible trouble coming to terms with.

I don't do Shakespeare. I don't talk in that kind of broken English.

I didn't aspire to be on 'The Bachelor.' I didn't watch the show. I thought it was for losers truly.

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

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

If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.

There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.

In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.

People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'

I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

The middlebrow, I hate.

I think that people are too... They've become genre snobs.

It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.