A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage…

A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

— A. P. Herbert

I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the…

— Sebastian Horsley

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

— Dick Cavett

“Thankfully existing only in SMALL pockets within our discipline, is “intellectual” snobbery. It’s a hushed but ugly truth that people are made to feel…

— Sandra Sealy

“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,…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.

— Walt Disney

I am interested in the highbrow/lowbrow synthesis. My sensibility, I am proud to say, is middlebrow.

— Robert Christgau

A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.

— Edgar Wallace

I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.

— Gordon Getty

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

— Brander Matthews

“the highbrow weeklies whatever they do? He can’t. He’s been conditioned.”

— C.S. Lewis

I don't see myself as particularly highbrow. I am much more populist.

— David Slade

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

— Naima Simone

I can't think of anything worse than calling Shakespeare 'highbrow,' because on the one hand, it's brilliant writing. But his plays were popular. People…

— Timothy Dalton

“Philip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass — not shelter.…

— Frank Lloyd Wright