David Sedaris Quotes

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

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

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

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

What you're saying is that 'I, the superior elite, will take care of you.' Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can't be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.

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.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

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

The American people have worn out their patience being told by their so-called bettors that you don't know how to live your lives the right way. We need to arrange things for you so you can do things better than you would do yourself.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

There's no snobbery in me.

Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.

If I have an antipathy for any class of people, it is for fine ladies. I almost match my Husband's detestation of partridge-shooting gentlemen.

... more snobbish than their English butlers.

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

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

Yeah, it is particularly upsetting to be called, whatever it was, sneery, or a snob, given the background I have.

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

Inverted snobbery is just as dangerous as snobbery itself, you know - that pride in having nothing.

We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the poor can die off.

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

What did you expect? 'Welcome, sonny?' 'Make yourself at home?' 'Marry my daughter?' You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons.

Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.

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