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• In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms

  John Steinbeck

  Doe, May, Riches

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.108, Penguin

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• 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.

  Alain de Botton

  Vision, Use, Small Parts

  "What's A Kinder Way To Frame Success?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. November 1, 2013.

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• I'm not a snob. Ask anybody-well, anybody who matters.

  Simon Le Bon

  Matter, Wells, Asks

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• There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.

  Stephen King

  Book, Writing, Play

  Stephen King (2017). “Hearts in Atlantis”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.

  Orson Welles

  Hate, Dressing Up, Kind

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• I am not a label snob and have learned that the thrill of shopping can be just as great, if not more so, when you find a bargain.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Shopping, Labels, Thrill

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• If we don't watch out, the pleasure o be gained from the discriminating enjoyment of food will be lost. It may not be long before the art of fine cooking is viewed as the invention of a handful of snobs. . . . A whole aspect of living well, of civilization itself, is threatened with extinction.

  Benoite Groult

  Life, Art, Civilization

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• Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are well-written books and badly written books. There are fun books and boring books. All of these distinctions are vastly more important than the distinction between the literary and the non-literary.

  Stephen Marche

  Fun, Smart, Stupid

  "How Genre Fiction Became More Important Than Literary Fiction" by Stephen Marche, www.esquire.com. March 11, 2015.

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• Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.

  Arnold Bennett

  Reading, People, Theatre

  Arnold Bennett (1974). “Arnold Bennett: the Evening standard years: "Books and persons" 1926-1931”, Shoe String Pr Inc

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• I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.

  Pablo Picasso

  Fashion, Numbers, Style

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Lying, People, Majority

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.1762, e-artnow

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• I suppose I am a snob. I loathe towns. I loathe townspeople. They have small minds and giant backsides. Which is to say, what they lack in interiors they make up in posteriors.

  Kami Garcia

  Mind, Giants, Towns

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• Lady Gaga has a very unjaded intelligence. It's brilliant, 'cause it's anti-snob.

  Mika

  Causes, Brilliant, Gaga

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• A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

  Karl Kraus

  Might, Praise, Be Good

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• A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Claims, Familiar

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• Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?

  Frederick Buechner

  Dark, Air, People

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith”, p.372, Zondervan

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• The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Vocabulary, Grapes, Sour

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• The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians in their isolation, the most selfish and ungrateful in their cocoons, the most unjust of employers and the most overweening of snobs. The love of Christ embraces all without exception.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Selfish, Gay

  Brennan Manning (2009). “The Furious Longing of God”, p.60, David C Cook

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• Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like being careful not to sing pop songs in the shower because some guy in the local alt-weekly is a music snob.

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden

  Song, Guy, Dozen

  "Oh No Lev Grossman No". nielsenhayden.com. August 30, 2009.

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• The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor -- spending and being spent -- to enrich their fellow humans, giving time, trouble, care and concern, to do good to others -- and not just their own friends -- in whatever way there seems need.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Giving, Shining

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• Introverts keep their best stuff inside—that is, until it is ready. And this drives extroverts crazy! The explanation for the introvert’s behavior—and there must be an explanation for this behavior, say the extroverts—is that he or she is antisocial, out of touch, or simply a snob.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Crazy, Extroverts, Stuff

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• The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  College, Spirit, Students

  Speech in New Orleans, 19 October 1969, in 'Frankly Speaking' (1970) ch. 3

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• To be honest, I'm a bit of a snob now; give me a Four Seasons anywhere in the world and I'm happy. Also, they've just opened a Ritz-Carlton in County Wicklow, Ireland, which is stunning and has great views.

  Joe Elliott

  Views, Giving, Four Seasons

  "Me and my travels". Interview with Jon Bennett, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2008.

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• There are a lot of snobs out there who disregard these books (romance novels), but they fulfil a need. I am happy and fulfilled in what I am doing and readers love them. And why not? They are harmless and they are fun.

  Sara Craven

  Fun, Book, Romance

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• Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.

  Russell Lynes

  Sympathy, Real, Heart

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