Highbrow Quotes

“What a shabby lot of highbrows have turned out tonight," he said, when he saw us. "It makes me ashamed to be one.”

“What a shabby lot of highbrows have turned out tonight," he said, when he saw us. "It makes me ashamed to be one.”

“There's no difference between pulp fiction and highbrow fiction, one is as good as the other, the only difference is the aura they have, and that's determined by the people who read the stuff, not by the book itself. There's no such thing as 'the book itself.”

“A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.”

“What's great about teen fiction is that it's all mixed up - there's highbrow and lowbrow!”

“What is a highbrow? He is a man who has found something more interesting than women.”

“Hey Highbrow. Next time remember to tuck and roll.”

“Reading Encyclopaedia Britannica is like channel surfing on a very highbrow cable system.”

“So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.”

“There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.”

“There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.”