When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings. — Cary Grant Copy Share Image
Damn you, for being so incredibly boring that I didn't listen to you talk... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Snobbery is one of the things one should be most discriminating about” — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another. — Dorothy Salisbury Davis Copy Share Image
There's no snobbery or resentment from serious polo people towards those who just come for the party. — Kate Reardon Copy Share Image
The derision comes from snobbery, which I think is the worst thing for art and music. I don't think there's any place… — Theo Hutchcraft Copy Share Image
“Snobbery is with certain people analogous to those beverages in which the agreeable is mixed with the beneficial.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The Murchisons are honest-to-God-real-foe-rich colored people, and the only people in the world who are more snobbish than rich white people are… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that he was… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Girl if you didn't act like you were all that when you were a 9 or a 10, you would have a… — Richie Parker Copy Share Image
“As royalty, celebrities and the rich have always known, a smile is the most subtle and satisfying way of shitting on the… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
The biggest myth I'd like to bust isn't about me - it's about musicals. So many people dismiss the entire art form… — Michael Ball Copy Share Image
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . .… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Although the rudiments of snobbery are there, its finer developments are basically alien to the Australian soul - that is, if Australians… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
There is snobbery in the idea that the modern cult of celebrity has not touched the lofty realm of letters. We are… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
I stay subjective because that's what I do. That's one of my abilities. I don't need to watch it because I've had… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
Music should always be polarizing. What one person likes, somebody else hates. And I hate that kind of snobbery in pop music.… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the… — Anthony Crosland Copy Share Image
“The word “snobbery” came into use for the first time in England during the 1820s. It was said to have derived from… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels—It is really very well for a novel.”… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“McKisco's contacts with the princely classes in America had impressed upon him their uncertain and fumbling snobbery, their delight in ignorance and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I'm a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“In crew, contempt is important. In Boston, Boston University and Northeastern crew are treated with contempt by the college up the river.… — Lisa Birnbach Copy Share Image
The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
