Quotes About Snob

On his Grand Tour, McAllister made a careful study of all aspects of social life: court manners, architecture, fashion, food, drink, watering spots, dances. He returned to the United States as what one contemporary called "the most complete dandy in America," and established himself in New York as essentially a professional snob.

I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.

An employee who is a selfish & snob and can hobnob & snatch or rob others work's credit easily becomes BOB (Boss of Branch) in the private sector corporate job.

Olivia was by no means a snob but she was aesthetic and the details Mrs. Saunders gave about her illness were not; also Mrs. Saunders' accent--how could one help noticing with her droning on and on?--was not that of a too highly educated person...

Taryn knew a lot of people whom she thought of as intellectual snobs. What they were, in fact, were people incapable of relinquishing their sovereign sense that their identity was tied up with what they understood and enjoyed. And they liked to stay sure of themselves, so they never read or watched anything outside what they already approved as good or enjoyable for them.

Given his own amorality, he could quite easily have come to terms with her criminal tendencies, but he could never, being the snob that he was, ever have overlooked her roots.

I am the opposite of a snob." Jack laughed a long time. "You think being a reverse snob is not being a snob? Olive, you're a snob.

I'm kind of a Midwestern snob. I think we're just nice people and have a great work ethic.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

But I'll still be betrothed. Some fun if he's a snob, and most of those court boys are snobs. And what if Uncle says I have to live with the boy's family? At least if he joins ours, I can stick him in the farthest room and pretend he isn't here.

You're the most terrible snob, Clark." "What? Me?" "You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are "not that sort of person"." "But, I'm not." "How do you know? You've done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?

I am a total coffee snob and bore. If anyone makes the mistake of offering me 'a coffee' they tend to regret it - I'm worse than Mariah Carey, and the hot milk rider is completely non-negotiable.

I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.

There's nothing more I hate than a wrestling snob.

Yes. I'll accept being called a snob when it comes to government. I'd like very much to be left alone to manage my own affairs in a live-and-let-live economy, I'd like for my state to be left alone to keep house without advice from the NAACP, which knows next to nothing about its business and cares less. That organization has stirred up more trouble in the past five years—

My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word 'snob' comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women.

Qué entendés por snob? —preguntó Oliveira, más interesado. —Bueno —dijo la Maga, agachando la cabeza con el aire de quien presiente que va a decir una burrada—, yo me vine en tercera clase, pero creo que si hubiera venido en segunda Luciana hubiera ido a despedirme. —La mejor definición que he oído nunca —dijo Oliveira.

Isabel no era una mujer fácil, pero sí era una esnob, y una esnob radical siempre corre el riesgo de acabar comportándose como una meretriz.

Yes, I'm a New Yorker, born and bred. While I'm not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York.

Anybody who loves jazz has a little bit of snob in them.

President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.

I know that I'm a bit of a snob now, because 'The Lover' put me up here and I just don't want to accept anything less than that. I don't see why I should.

I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

I feel like I've become less of a music snob and less of a snob about a lot of things because I realize I came off as such a bad person because of that.