Snobbery Quotes · Page 3

Snobbery management is as difficult and necessary as anger management.

— Michael Foley

There's a real kind of snobbery in the U.K. about horror films.

— Neil Marshall

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

— Albert Camus

“It is professional snobbery that refrains training rookies.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

Inverted snobbery is just as dangerous as snobbery itself, you know - that pride in having nothing.

— Pete Doherty

Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one.

— Trent Zelazny

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

— Kevin Kwan

I've always read voraciously since I was a kid and for me, there's no snobbery around books.

— Andi Oliver

I've got lots of friends who would just think, 'Horror movies - they're crap, aren't they?' I think there's a cultural snobbery…

— James Watkins

Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is…

— Russell Smith

Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic…

— Timothy Noah

“Physically she was like a swan among more humble fowl – tall, willowy, and exceptionally pretty with fair skin and golden hair,…

— Francine Pascal

One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You…

— Henry Rollins

There's been a kind of inverse snobbery about culture. I get the feeling some people would look at Shakespeare and say, that's…

— Munira Mirza

There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a…

— Henry Fairlie

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

— Penelope Ashe

“...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general…

— Arthur Koestler

I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting that one type of music…

— Corey Taylor

In the field of snobbery, Australia is an underdeveloped country; even a few British ex-colonies, regarded as under developed in all other…

— George Mikes

“The Occidental snobbery which is invading us, the gunboats, rapid-fire guns, long-range rifles, explosives... what else? Everything which makes death collective, administrative…

— Octave Mirbeau

“M. Proust was more severe than M. de Caillavet on Anatole France: "He was selfish and supercilious. He had read so much…

— Céleste Albaret

“As C. S. Lewis regularly remarked, the chronological snobbery of the modern age (i.e. the assumption that anything that comes after around…

— N.T. Wright

“The greatest stories appeal to our deepest selves, the parts of us snobbery can’t reach, the parts that connect the child to…

— Matt Haig

“I walked across the two feet of drive to the lawn and stepped slowly onto the grass. It wasn't a wild grass,…

— Faith Hunter

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

— Leonard Bernstein

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

— Diane Lane

It makes me sad there is still some intellectual snobbery out there.

— Steve Easterbrook

“[Y]ou shouldn't cut your old friends now that you have risen in the world. That's what we call snobbery.”

— George Bernard Shaw

My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.

— Matthew Specktor

My mum especially listens to music in a way that is incredibly feelings-based. There's virtually no snobbery about what sounds are in…

— James Blake

When I was a child, headlice were something to be mentioned in hushed horror. There was undoubtedly an element of snobbery in…

— Rebecca Front

“The tunnel under the wall of intellectual snobbery is the only way back to common sense reality, but most won't find it…

— D.E. Navarro

That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Stephen Fry

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

— Grace Fiorre

I have been to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street but cannot get on the BBC. I am very disappointed because it…

— Phil Taylor

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

— Helen Clark

The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was…

— Sally Field