Quotes About Snobbery

When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in the acting profession. But that wasn't sexism, it was snobbery, which I knew and took very humbly.

I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.

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 more than an institutional one.

If there is a snobbery, then they haven't been on set to see how a show like 'EastEnders' works. Because I know for a fact that some of my favourite actors are still not capable of doing what these guys do.

The British are actually a lot more appreciative of the comic. In Canada, if you're perceived as a comic writer, there's a real snobbery, and you can't be serious. You're not a big hitter.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

There's a real kind of snobbery in the U.K. about horror films.

It makes me sad there is still some intellectual snobbery out there.

Music was segregated in the '80s, and then in the '90s the boundaries started to break down, and rock kids got into electronic music. But then you got this reverse snobbery where people would only listen to electronic music and not rock.

There is a little bit of snobbery with casting, and unless you're a really successful comedian like Ruth Jones, you don't get to be in the drama side of things.

Inverted snobbery is just as dangerous as snobbery itself, you know - that pride in having nothing.

Class and the snobbery it provokes still matter far too much in Britain, but we are a far more mobile society than we used to be.

I think sometimes with politics, young people especially have become disillusioned with it, because they can't relate to it, there's a lot of snobbery and people are a lot older.

Food is the only snobbery allowed. Imagine pulling up in your expensive car alongside somebody at the lights with a cheap car and saying, 'Is that all you've got?' But people do it with food.

I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.

A lot of people are kind of snobby about garlic powder and onion powder. I happen to love them.

The biggest myth I'd like to bust isn't about me - it's about musicals. So many people dismiss the entire art form through highbrow snobbery, but I think a lot of those people would be suprised if they actually saw some.

I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.

Zanadto wlaz?em w towarzystwo, które tu kwitnie. Ci?gle zadaj? si? z Francuzk? i drem franc[uskim] (?ydkiem) z pierwszej oraz z ma?p? australsk?, wobec której wypuszczam zreszt? du?o snobizmu naukowego.

But Cecilia, having learned modern forms of snobbery at Cambridge, considered a man with a degree in chemistry incomplete as a human being.

There is an intellectual snobbery that, regrettably, many academics suffer from. They are proud their paper is only read by a small group of people - makes it very exclusive. Let's get rid of that. If it's truly important, people should be excited about it.

and any discussion of art vs. entertainment in the present cultural climate invites accusations of elitism and snobbery.

And I have been fortunate to escape what has been called "that form of snobbery which can accept the Literature of Entertainment in the Past, but only the Literature of Enlightenment in the Present.

Your mother is probably right," Dad said. "Social services frowns on drunk ten-year-ols. Besides, when I dropped my drumsticks and puked onstage, it was punk. If you drop your bow and smell like a brewery, it will look gauche. You classical-music people are so snobby that way.