Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position.
The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.
Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.
Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.
Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.
Racism is the snobbery of the poor.
Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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.
Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.
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.
I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.
Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.
Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.
I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.
There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.
When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.
It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
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.
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.
He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.
I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English ‘education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school — I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave.
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