79 Quotes About Elitism

"Speaking Latin properly is indeed to be held in the highest regard – not just because of its own merits, but in fact because it has been neglected by the masses. For it is not so much Noble to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it."

"The mother tongue of politicians is that of ancient Babylon: a language designed to severely limit discourse within a tower of praise to elitism, a language carried on breath's reeking of the fecal matter from their paymasters"

"Class amusements, be they for Dukes or plow-boys, always become nuisances and curses to a country. The true charm of cricket and hunting is that they are still, more or less sociable and universal; There's a place for every man who will come and take his part."

"[I]t is indisputably the mediocre, if not the low, both as regards morality and intelligence, who succeed in life and multiply the fastest."

"...what is art to the dilettante but the initiation of the sacred few to the exclusion of the profane crowd?..."

"We need to be pro-children and pro-literacy of all kinds. Embrace, respect, and value everybody's tastes and everybody's choices. When you take away elitism and judgment, such good things happen."

"When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one's living room as much as in one's local gallery that a little elitism was good for the soul."