Snobbery Quotes

• Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

  Pauline Kael

  Artist, Vulgarity Is, Destructive

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• 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.

  Russell Lynes

  Truth, Class, People

  Russell Lynes (1966). “Confessions of a dilettante”

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• We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Inspirational, Fashion, Icons

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.21, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

  Berton Braley

  Pride, Not Sure, Position

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• 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.

  George Orwell

  Country, Silly, Land

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Alexander Theroux

  Essence, Hypocrisy, Problem

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

  Joseph Brodsky

  Despair, Form

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

  Cary Grant

  Past, Recognition, Failing

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

  Albert Camus

  Funny, Spiritual, Witty

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

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• 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.

  Freeman Dyson

  Real, Roots, People

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• 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.

  Sally Field

  People, Style, Television

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

  Helen Clark

  Strong, Lying, Aversion

  Valedictory Speech in Parliament, www.infonews.co.nz. April 08, 2009.

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• 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.

  Alex Kapranos

  Alternatives, Hierarchy, Mainstream

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

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

  John Cleese

  Wine, People, Stuff

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• 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.

  Irvine Welsh

  People, Culture, Levels

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• 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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Believe, Tired, Humility

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

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis

  Poor, Snobbishness

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “Lullaby of Murder”, p.134, Open Road Media

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

  Gordon Ramsay

  Levels

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• When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.

  C. S. Lewis

  Secret, Listening, Church

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Society, Impossible, Sometimes

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval”, p.8

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• 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.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Spiritual, Believe, Rocks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Racism is the snobbery of the poor.

  Raymond Aron

  Racism, Poor

  Raymond Aron (1968). “Progress and Disillusion: The Dialectics of Modern Society”

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• 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.

  John Piper

  Age, Vices, Novelty

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• Snobbery management is as difficult and necessary as anger management.

  Michael Foley

  Anger Management, Management, Difficult

  Michael Foley (2012). “Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization.

  Arthur Koestler

  Silly, Men, Civilization

  Arthur Koestler (1955). “The trail of the dinosaur & other essays”

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