Snobbery Quotes

65 quotes by 58 authors

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair. — Joseph Brodsky
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. — Albert Camus
I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours. — Helen Clark
Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it. — John Cleese
Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery. — C.S. Lewis
Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position. — Berton Braley
Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things. — Charles Dudley Warner
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . . There will always… — James Bryant Conant
Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff — Leonard Bernstein
We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery. — Pauline Kael
Racism is the snobbery of the poor. — Raymond Aron
I have been to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street but cannot get on the BBC. I am very disappointed because it boils down to… — Phil Taylor
Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery. — A J P Taylor
The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take land from heathens… — Arthur Miller
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. — Peter Ustinov
Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror tackles our darkest… — Kealan Patrick Burke
Thereâ€™s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another. — Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Snobbery management is as difficult and necessary as anger management. — Michael Foley
It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid. — Andy Partridge

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