Francine Pascal Quote

So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its finest, most faulty manifestation; there can be no true ignorance without first some claim of intellig...

Kilmartin wrote a highly amusing and illuminating account of his experience as a Proust revisionist, which appeared in the first issue of Ben Sonnenberg's quarterly in the autumn of 1981. The essay o...

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.

I can't bear literary snobbery.

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

The word snobbery came into use for the first time in England during 1820s. It was said to have derived from the habit of many Oxford and Cambridge colleges of writing sine nobilitate (without nobilit...

People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled somebodies, and their inverse nobodies-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are all, by necessity, individ...

I am Emma Woodhouse. I feel for her, of her and in her. I have a different sort of snobbism, but I understand her snobbism. Her priggishness. I admire it. I know she does wrong things, she tries to or...