Peter Ustinov Quotes

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

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

Snobbery just inhibits you.

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.

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.

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

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

You’ll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don’t want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.” He held out his hand to shake Harry’s, but Harry didn’t take it. “I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, thanks,” he said coolly.

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 think we could all be a bit more elitist.

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

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

I try to not be or associate with elitists.

Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.

The Scottish nobility has a feckless arrogant conceit of their greatness and power.

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

Laughter does not please the mighty.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

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.

I'm not a snob. Ask anybody-well, anybody who matters.

He's so snobbish he has an unlisted zip-code.

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

When Ling was communicating to any person the signs by which messengers might find him, he was compelled to add, "the neighbourhood in which this contemptible person resides is that officially known as 'the mean quarter favoured by the lower class of those who murder by treachery'," and for this reason he was not always treated with the regard to which his attainments entitled him, or which he would have unquestionably received had he been able to describe himself as of "the partly-drained and uninfected area reserved to Mandarins and their friends.

If you have to ask then you don't deserve an answer.