Quotes About Snobbery

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

As it happened I was no longer interested in literature as a form of snobbery or even of self-definition – I had no desire to prove that one book was better than another: in fact, if I read something I admired I found myself increasingly disinclined to mention it at all. What I knew personally to be true had come to seem unrelated to the process of persuading others. I did not, any longer, want to persuade anyone of anything.

Don't get me wrong - intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche.

The right-wing conservatives are so entitled in their snobbery that no one is ever good enough for them, so the rest of us, especially moderates, must suffer.

Snobbery is just the public face of insecurity.

This is not a "guilty pleasure" of mine, simply because I don't believe in "guilty" pleasures. Snobbery is just the public face of insecurity.

Snobbery here raised its hideous head and marooned her on a permanent island of loneliness.

A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are.

Yale men do not like to be told anything by people who didn't go to Yale. The closest I came to Yale was once I had one of their padlocks.

There is this to be said about having money. You get rejected by a higher class of people.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

There's no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

Questions, Hypothetical: Needn't be answered. No one knows why. Schools, Public: They teach you to stand on your own two feet. 'No doors on the lavatories. That sorts the men from the boys'. Snobbery, Inverted: The worst kind. No need to explain why.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

There is a subtle snobbery at play here. It's not so much that anyone denies outright that accounts of deliberative politics reflect historical reality; it's just that no one seems to find this fact particularly interesting. What seems interesting to historians is invariably the relation of these accounts to European textual traditions, or European expectations.

Snobs look down on people, and I look down on everyone. Not in a snooty, classist way - I mean because I'm better than everyone. I don't give a s**t about good manners.

it's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than thesquarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

Just like anyone else, I watch a lot of reality TV yet will turn my nose up at some of it, e.g., ABC's 'Splash,' because I think I'm above it.

it is our good fortune that the exigencies of birth and training furnish all of us with the opportunities for snobbery.

finally left the worst of the happy throng behind and made it to the Methodist grub-tent, having passed by the Baptists with the snooty feeling of a man-about-town who is in the know.

We had enough quite enough snobbery in this world without exporting it to the hereafter.

I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.