Snobbery Quotes

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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 snobbery.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

Racism is the snobbery of the poor.

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

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

This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!

Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.

Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the same dress.

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

The derision comes from snobbery, which I think is the worst thing for art and music. I don't think there's any place for it and it comes from insecurity.

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

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

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

I'll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren't right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I do find their wine snobbery something unbearable.

Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

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

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

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

The Monarchy...is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment

That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

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

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard.

Snobbery management is as difficult and necessary as anger management.

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

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

I personally favor old mechanical watches, but my snobbery does not extend to demanding that all people wear them. My snobbery demands that no one wear a digital.

Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

Can I help you?" he said, in a manner which indicated very clearly that not only did he not wish to help them, but also that he resented the implication that he ought to

I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a great deal over the millennia. Human technology? Of course. Human beings? Hardly.

You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have not yet had time to become old.

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

I can't bear literary snobbery.