If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
Source: Jesting Pilate, 1926.
-- Aldous Huxley, (Jul 26 1894-1963), English novelist, critic; His works were notable for their elegance, wit, and pessimistic satire of contemporary life, Brave New World, 1932.