Monty Don Quotes

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.

I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

... 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.

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

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

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.

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

Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.

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

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

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

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.

Inside the intelligentsia, the pressure of public opinion is overwhelming. Nationalistic loyalty towards the proletariat, and most vicious theoretical hatred of the bourgeoisie, can and often do co-exist with ordinary snobbishness in everyday life.

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

Class and the snobbery it provokes still matter far too much in Britain, but we are a far more mobile society than we used to be.

Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.

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.

For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit.

Sometimes people who know our societies hate us worse that those who don’t… People who are our intellectual and educational equals feel humiliation even more so that the … peasant who is used to being downtrodden….

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Powerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is in and who is out, who is up and who is down, forgetting those people whose toil and sweat sends us here and pays our way.

All of our problems are the result of overbreeding among the working class, and if morality is to mean anything at all to us, we must regard all the changes which tend toward the uplift and survival of the human race as moral.

The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white people for two contradictory reasons: a) he constantly proclaims belief in human equality, but they don't ; b) he has a high IQ, but they don't.