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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

A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. — A.P. Herbert

There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight. — Henry Fairlie

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

Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the same dress. — Mary Quant

[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

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it. — John Cleese

Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility ... youth's characteristic chronological snobbery. — C.S. Lewis

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism. — Arthur Phillips

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

A second or two later, the reptile had been quite absorbed by a handsome, arrogant-looking Englishman smelling strongly of snobbery and snake. — P.B. Kerr

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 have been to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street but cannot get on the BBC. I am very disappointed because it boils down to snobbery. — Phil Taylor

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

The tunnel under the wall of intellectual snobbery is the only way back to common sense reality, but most won't find it because it is beneath them. — D.E. Navarro

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

If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable. — Criss Jami

Confidence is good, but when they hold their heads high like that, it just makes them look cocky and snobbish. — Grace Fiorre

Some people have such good taste they can't enjoy anything. — Marty Rubin

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

We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music. — Mike Shinoda

Don't get me wrong - intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche. — Robert Webb

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

Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position. — Berton Braley

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

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings. — Cary Grant

Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff — Leonard Bernstein

Snobbery management is as difficult and necessary as anger management. — Michael Foley

There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music. — Stephen Fry

My theory was that if you spent such a big portion of your life being a snob, you were not allowed to be surprised when people start wishing you dead. — Chrissy Moon

At least when it comes to food, there's no snobbery in Singapore. — Kevin Kwan

If a community bends over backward to be publicly liberal, it can give itself the bonus of private snobbery. — Penelope Ashe

Scions of old families who've hit the skids do like to flaunt their illustrious ancestors.... — Charlotte MacLeod

What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery. — Alain De Botton