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
“No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be; till he's realised exactly how much right… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I am Emma Woodhouse. I feel for her, of her and in her. I have a different sort of snobbism, but I… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Inverted snobbery is just as dangerous as snobbery itself, you know - that pride in having nothing. — Pete Doherty Copy Share Image
I've always read voraciously since I was a kid and for me, there's no snobbery around books. — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
It makes me sad there is still some intellectual snobbery out there. — Steve Easterbrook Copy Share Image
There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a… — Henry Fairlie Copy Share Image
“Physically she was like a swan among more humble fowl – tall, willowy, and exceptionally pretty with fair skin and golden hair,… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“If a community bends over backward to be publicly liberal, it can give itself the bonus of private snobbery.” — Penelope Ashe Copy Share Image
I have been to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street but cannot get on the BBC. I am very disappointed because it… — Phil Taylor Copy Share Image
There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“M. Proust was more severe than M. de Caillavet on Anatole France: "He was selfish and supercilious. He had read so much… — Céleste Albaret Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Soaps are great. You learn to work very fast - some say superficially, but that's not really true. You do some very… — Charles Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
“A pleasantly situated hotel close to the sea, and chalets by the water's edge where one breakfasted. Clientele well-to-do, and although I… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“Thankfully existing only in SMALL pockets within our discipline, is “intellectual” snobbery. It’s a hushed but ugly truth that people are made… — Sandra Sealy Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Confidence is good, but when they hold their heads high like that, it just makes them look cocky and snobbish.” — Grace Fiorre Copy Share Image
“...it is our good fortune that the exigencies of birth and training furnish all of us with the opportunities for snobbery.” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“This is not a "guilty pleasure" of mine, simply because I don't believe in "guilty" pleasures. Snobbery is just the public face… — James Kakalios Copy Share Image
Class and the snobbery it provokes still matter far too much in Britain, but we are a far more mobile society than… — Andrew Neil Copy Share Image
“...and any discussion of art vs. entertainment in the present cultural climate invites accusations of elitism and snobbery.” — Steven Moore Copy Share Image
“Mmm, being irresistibly likeable is such a trial,' she drawled in an impeccable aristocratic whine. 'One is constantly in demand, but one… — Susan Napier Copy Share Image
“A stickler hallmark is that those who speak or write differently can't merely be wrong; they must be depraved, too.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism. ” — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
