“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
“But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism. ” — Arthur Phillips 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
“All definitions of civilization along to a conjugation which goes: "I am civilized, you belong to a culture, he is a barbarian.” — Felipe Fernández-Armesto 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
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
“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
“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
Wine is my passion. I'm not keen on the snobbery or elitism of wine, that's not what it's about - I just… — Mick Hucknall 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
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
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
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
Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery. — C. S. Lewis 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
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
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
It makes me sad there is still some intellectual snobbery out there. — Steve Easterbrook 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
“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
“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
I've always read voraciously since I was a kid and for me, there's no snobbery around books. — Andi Oliver 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
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
Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings. — Cary Grant Copy Share Image
