Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

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

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

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

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

I've had my fill of these city guttersnipes--all that scavenging scum! They're the sort of people, who, if the gates of heaven opened to them, all they'd feel would be a draught.

Snobbery just inhibits you.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

Critics established a snobbery toward me.

A Mexican is not as good as a dog and isn’t even worth a bullet to kill him.

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

I don't want to be elitist.

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

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

Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

Reasons are for peasants.

Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.'

The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody envies the rich. Me, I love the rich. Somebody has to love them. Sure, a lot o’ rich people are assholes, but believe me, a lot o’ poor people are assholes, too, and an asshole with money can at least pay for his own drinks.

Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods.

All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs.

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 way that we make dumb decisions and discriminatory decisions is by employing stereotypes about groups of people. We don't see people as fully human when other people speak for them.

There's an aspect of human nature in which we want to think we're better than somebody else. They're a different color. They speak a different language. They have a different name for the Creator. Whatever it is, that makes it okay for me to hate them, to try to get some of their land or some of their resources.

Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin, it has to do with money and their class.