Richard Brautigan Quotes

Snobbery just inhibits you.

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

In the West, it's just a given that art exists in this high-class place. But in Japan, there's no high class. The minute you come out, you're low class.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one's living room as much as in one's local gallery that a little elitism was good for the soul.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

My friends adore 'TOWIE' - the TV documentary series, 'The Only Way is Essex.' They like it, I'm afraid, for the most unworthy of reasons: class mockery. They tune in to wonder in a 'can you believe those people?' way at the natives of Brentwood and Buckhurst Hill.

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.

Maybe I'm an elitist, but I don't feel like I am.

You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

I always prided myself on being apart from the ruling class. I think it's always important, not just in Washington but in life, to be able to able to balance your sense of belonging with what it's like to be someone who doesn't belong.

I try to not be or associate with elitists.

I've never been aware of the difference between so-called posh actors and working-class actors.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

The classical music world is so snobbish.

One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.

When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.