Snobbery Quotes
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We had enough quite enough snobbery in this world without exporting it to the hereafter.
— Rick Riordan
Lewis had experienced more trauma than most of his modern readers ever will.
— Alister E. McGrath
I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.
— Helen Clark
The shabbier the snobbier.
— Elaine Dundy
The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
— G.K. Chesterton
There's no snobbery or resentment from serious polo people towards those who just come for the party.
— Kate Reardon
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[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.
— Joseph Epstein
It is professional snobbery that refrains training rookies.
— Aniruddha Sastikar
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery
— Yves Saint-Laurent
You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have not yet had time to become old.
— Alexandre Dumas
In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.
— Simon Cowell
The Monarchy ... is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment
— Kingsley Martin
Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.
— Alexander Theroux
English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.
— Arthur Phillips
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Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.
— Charles Dudley Warner
This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!
— Mitchell Kapor
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
— Albert Camus
A stickler hallmark is that those who speak or write differently can't merely be wrong; they must be depraved, too.
— Robert Lane Greene
It's the worst sort of snobbery to condemn a book without reading it, merely because it's popular.
— Rose Lerner
I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.
— Susan Sontag
...and any discussion of art vs. entertainment in the present cultural climate invites accusations of elitism and snobbery.
— Steven Moore
Lord, lord, the snobbery of the English!
— Virginia Woolf
All definitions of civilization along to a conjugation which goes: I am civilized, you belong to a culture, he is a barbarian.
— Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Snobbery just inhibits you.
— Sam Taylor-Johnson
Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one.
— Trent Zelazny
We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.
— Criss Jami
As royalty, celebrities and the rich have always known, a smile is the most subtle and satisfying way of shitting on the inferior.
— Michael Foley
All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.
— Louis MacNeice
There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.
— Robbie Williams
Confidence is good, but when they hold their heads high like that, it just makes them look cocky and snobbish.
— Grace Fiorre
I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.
— Diane Lane
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
— Peter Ustinov
There's a real kind of snobbery in the U.K. about horror films.
— Neil Marshall
Manchester has everything but good looks ... , the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
— A.J.P. Taylor
Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.
— Joseph Brodsky
All my life, people have taken my shyness for sullenness, snobbery, bad temper of one sort or another.
— Donna Tartt
To sneer at his imperfect attempt was very bad breeding.
— Emily Bronte
My snobbery made me do it.
— John Lithgow
Snobbery is one of the things one should be most discriminating about
— Edward St. Aubyn
There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.
— Gordon Ramsay
England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.
— George Orwell
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
— Dan Rather
Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.
— Pauline Kael
There's no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.
— Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Racism is the snobbery of the poor.
— Raymond Aron
I can't bear literary snobbery.
— Sara Sheridan
Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff
— Leonard Bernstein
There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.
— Stephen Fry
If a community bends over backward to be publicly liberal, it can give itself the bonus of private snobbery.
— Penelope Ashe
