Aversion Quote by Helen Clark

“Snobbery is one of the things one should be most discriminating about”

— Edward St Aubyn

“The distinctive mark of snobs is not simple discrimination, it is an insistence on a flawless equation between social rank and human worth.”

— Alain de Botton

Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position.

— Berton Braley

All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs.

— Anna Julia Cooper

Snobbery just inhibits you.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

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

— Timothy Noah

“Unfortunately it is nowadays the fashion to pretend that the glass is penetrable. Of course everyone knows that class-prejudice exists, but at the same…

— George Orwell

You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

It's the people who transcend their backgrounds who are interesting to me. I have got a bit of inverted snobbery.

— Viv Albertine

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

— Peter Ackroyd

Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark…

— Frederick Buechner

I am not indifferent to the appreciation of kind people. [The voters were] extremely kind in naming me the world's top public intellectual, a…

— Fethullah Gulen