The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours. — Helen Clark 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
“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
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
“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 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
I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting that one type of music… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
“I had never thought much of genealogy. A lot of wasted time collecting the names of the dead. Then stringing those names,… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no… — John Piper 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
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
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
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
Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery. — C. S. Lewis 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
“Snobbery is with certain people analogous to those beverages in which the agreeable is mixed with the beneficial.” — Marcel Proust 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
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 Copy Share Image
Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the snobbery of science, each branch attempts to rise in the social scale by imitating the methods of the next higher… — Gilbert Newton Lewis Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren't right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the… — Rod Stewart Copy Share Image
I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual… — Sinead O'Connor 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 think sometimes with politics, young people especially have become disillusioned with it, because they can't relate to it, there's a lot… — Georgia Toffolo 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
I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Like so many of his successors in the language-crank world today, though, (Jonathan) Swift not only loathes (the) banal and common change… — Robert Lane Greene 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
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
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
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
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
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
We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting';… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Speaking Latin properly is indeed to be held in the highest regard – not just because of its own merits, but in… — Cicero Copy Share Image
“Se me hace muy chistoso que el mesero, que se ve a leguas que es mexicano, sin embargo nos hable en inglés.… — Guadalupe Loaeza Copy Share Image
