Arthur Koestler Quotes

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.

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

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

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

There's no snobbery in me.

In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.

I think there are people who use classical music to say, 'I am better than you, because I know all the rules and you don't.' You're not allowed to have fun or entertain.

an intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of superiority.

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.

The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.

Although the rudiments of snobbery are there, its finer developments are basically alien to the Australian soul - that is, if Australians have a soul; many people believe that they are too matter-of-fact and down-to-earth to have such fancy commodities.

Why does that pharmacist have to be two and a half feet higher than everybody else? Who the hell is this guy? "Clear out, everybody. I'm working with pills up here. I'm taking them from this big bottle and then I'm gonna put them in the little bottle. That's my whole job. I can't be down on the floor with you people."

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

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

The same group of New York pseudo-intellectuals who've put down prayer are the same ones who put down L.A.

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

The Delhi elite doesn't like me because I'm smarter than them.

The elitist way of looking on the runway, frankly, seems old fashioned.

The art house is an elitist idea.

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

Honestly, I'm a snobby person.

Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English ‘education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school — I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave.

The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.