Snob Quotes - Page 4

• All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Sex, Pride, Class

  Anna Julia Cooper (2016). “A Voice from the South”, p.54, Courier Dover Publications

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• I'm sure wine snobs look at me and think, how dare you.

  Drew Barrymore

  Wine, Thinking, Looks

  Interview with Alyssa Shelasky, www.bonappetit.com. July 16, 2013.

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• If I'm smart as an artist, I wouldn't be a snob and turn it down, because I'd look at it and go, this is great stuff, but I definitely do want to experiment in other genres, or make films in other genres.

  James Wan

  Smart, Artist, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Sick, Doubt, Paper

  "Rupert Murdoch: News Corporation Magnate". Book by Sue Vander Hook, p. 32, 2011.

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• We are all snobs of the Infinite, parvenus of the Eternal.

  James Huneker

  Infinite, Eternal

  James Huneker (2015). “Iconoclasts: A Book of Dramatists: Ibsen, Strindberg, Becque, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Hervieu, Gorky, Duse and D'Annunzio, Maeterlinck and Bernard Shaw”, p.6, CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

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• Luther Vandross and I met in Roberta Flack's band. He was singing background, I was playing bass, and Roberta was beautiful. She's like the mom to all these young musicians in New York. At that time that I met Luther, I was a musician snob. For me, the singers were just the people out in the front to keep the audience entertained. While the musicians did the real work.

  Marcus Miller

  Beautiful, Mom, Real

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• it's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than thesquarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

  e. e. cummings

  Trying, Use, Common

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• I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living.

  Raymond Chandler

  Art, Reading, Men

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Simple Art of Murder”, p.17, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Boom Bang a Bang was a huge part of me, maybe a part that I didnt relish, and there might be psychological reasons for that - I was a child being made to do things I didnt want to do. I was perhaps an elitist, a bit of a snob.

  Lulu

  Children, Want, Might

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• No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Beer, Names, Cider

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• I can be a badass DJ when I want, but I am also an insufferable music snob.

  Rachel Cohn

  Badass, Want, Insufferable

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.12, Egmont UK

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• I eat many different ice creams. I'm not an ice cream snob, although I do think Ben & Jerry's is the best. But I'm happy to eat anybody's ice cream, really. As long as it's good.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Thinking, Ice Cream, Long

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• I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.

  Glen Hansard

  Editing, Ideas, Creative

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• What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.

  Glen Hansard

  Thinking, Happens, Picks

  "Glen Hansard: The Best Songs Come 'As A Gift'". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 15, 2012.

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• We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, but how little he knows in comparison with what there is to know Wine, a hobby as fascinating and as human as one can find. One of the most fascinating aspects of the wine-hobby is the extent to which you learn all the time

  Alec Waugh

  Wine, Hobbies, Needs

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• If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• [democrats] have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans.

  Peggy Noonan

  Party, Thinking, Politics

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• The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fashion, Months, Bears

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.

  Jackie Evancho

  Trying, Want, Kind

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• You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Judging, Shows

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1856). “The Book of Snobs”, p.3

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• My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.

  Ziggy Marley

  Father, Different, Type

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even the shows or movies that we know are not going to change the world, I love this. I love 'em. I'm a movie fan. I'm a nerd of any kind. I love a big studio comedy as much as I love the teeniest tiniest of indie. I'm not a snob in that way. I really do like a big, big studio comedy.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Nerd, Fans, Ems

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• I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

  Norah Jones

  Believe, Noses, Jazz

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• Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.

  Patti Stanger

  Smart, Cities, Dumb

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• To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad!

  Mika

  Way, Highest

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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