Snobbery Quotes - Page 3

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

  Arthur Phillips

  Music Is, Minimum, Solipsism

  Arthur Phillips (2009). “The Song Is You: A Novel”, p.42, Random House

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• 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.

  Rod Stewart

  Wine, Bottles, France

  "Rod Stewart: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 18, 2012.

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

  Diane Lane

  East, World, Journalism

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• One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism.

  Henry Rollins

  Song, Nice, Musical

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

  Henry Fairlie

  America, Television, Praise

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• I stay subjective because that's what I do. That's one of my abilities. I don't need to watch it because I've had the adventure. I don't do low-budget acting. I do the same acting, whether I'm in a Jim Cameron or not. I always try to do good work. There's no snobbery in there

  Lance Henriksen

  Adventure, Trying, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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

  Simon Cowell

  Tvs, Film, Snob

  "Simon Cowell is a Very Odd Boy" by Chris Heath, www.gq.com. August 23, 2011.

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

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Vices, Looks, England

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• Music should always be polarizing. What one person likes, somebody else hates. And I hate that kind of snobbery in pop music. The fact that so many people are getting upset over this one song is hysterical. And if people like it, that's great.

  Simon Cowell

  Song, Hate, People

  "Simon Cowell Thinks Rebecca Black Has The X Factor!". Interview with Cosmo Girl, www.seventeen.com. April 11, 2011.

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• All the signals that the Democratic Party is a party that tolerates snobbery and bigotry against, frankly, a lot of traditional Christians, a lot of white guys who work hard every day and who don't feel that they are on top of the world, those signals are clear and it's a turn off.

  Van Jones

  Christian, Party, Hard Work

  Source: pen.org

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• The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take land from heathens rather than from fellow Christians. At any rate, very few Indians were converted, and the Salem folk believed that the virgin forest was the Devil's last preserve, his home base and the citadel of his final stand. To the best of their knowledge the American forest was the last place on earth that was not paying homage to God.

  Arthur Miller

  Christian, Home, Land

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Crucible”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

  Susan Sontag

  Unrequited Love, Past, Devotion

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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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.

  Phil Taylor

  Downing Street, Palaces, Buckingham Palace

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• We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat and prefer 'speech' and 'discourse'; well-bred, brilliant, or polite noblemen (visions of snobbery columns in the Press, and fat men on the Riviera) and prefer the 'worthy, brave and courteous men' of long ago.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Long Ago, Brave

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• Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror tackles our darkest fears, whatever they may be. It takes us into the minds of the victims, explores the threats, disseminates fear, studies how it changes us. It pulls back the curtain on the ugly underbelly of society, tears away the masks the monsters wear out in the world, shows us the potential truth of the human condition. Horror is truth, unflinching and honest. Not everybody wants to see that, but good horror ensures that it's there to be seen.

  Kealan Patrick Burke

  Thinking, Mind, Tears

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• Whence all this passion toward conformity anyway? – diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you'll have no tyrant states . Why, if they follow this conformity business they'll end up by forcing me, an invisible man, to become white, which is not a color but the lack of one. Must I strive toward colorlessness? But seriously, and without snobbery, think of what the world would lose if that should happen. America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.

  Ralph Ellison

  Passion, Men, Thinking

  "Invisible Man".

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• Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one.

  Trent Zelazny

  Smoking, Looks, Might

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• It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are not cute, I do not want to know you' was, to me, hardly different from suggesting 'because you are gay, I dislike you

  Stephen Fry

  Cute, Gay, Racism

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.128, The Overlook Press

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• 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.

  Alan Bennett

  Running, School, Class

  1968 Forty Years On (published 1969), act 2. Snobbery With Violence was used as a book title by Colin Wilson (1971).

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• Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or travelling on a train, instantly identify a person's social background as one can in England. Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness, or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from the cab-driver, the barman, the air-hostess and the drug-store assistant.

  Anthony Crosland

  Air, Class, Differences

  "The Future of Socialism". Book by Anthony Crosland, 1956.

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• Prayer or not, I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that one special person. That person to spend Christmas with or grow old with or just to take a nice silly walk in Central Park with. Somebody who wouldn't judge another for the prepositions they dangle, or their run-on sentences, and who in turn wouldn't be judged for the snobbery of their language etymology inclinations.

  Rachel Cohn

  Running, Prayer, Nice

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.72, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

  Kingsley Martin

  Secret, Flourishing, Institutions

  "The Crown and the Establishment". Book by Kingsley Martin, London, p. 175,

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