Snobbery Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Kind, Educated, Elitist

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the same dress.

  Mary Quant

  Fashion, Dresses, Gone

  Mary Quant (1966). “Quant”

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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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• Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited. You must find why it went out of date. Was it ever refuted (and if so by whom, where, and how conclusively), or did it merely die away as fashions do? If the latter, this tells us nothing about its truth or falsehood.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fashion, Acceptance, Intellectual

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the anti-bourgeois snobbery of people convinced of their right to dictate to the common man in the name of the common man.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, War, Men

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• My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.

  Matthew Specktor

  Parent, Littles, Patient

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . . There will always be the false snobbery which tries to place one vocation above another. You will become a member of the aristocracy in the American sense only if your accomplishments and integrity earn this appellation.

  James Bryant Conant

  Honesty, Integrity, Accomplishment

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• Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

  Peter Ustinov

  Funny, Happiness, Laughter

  In 'Observer' 13 March 1955

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• There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.

  Stephen Fry

  People, Limits, Decent

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.82, Soho Press

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• Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff

  Leonard Bernstein

  Wine, Bluffs, Sophistication

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• We had enough quite enough snobbery in this world without exporting it to the hereafter.

  Rick Riordan

  World, Had Enough, Exporting

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2): The Throne of Fire”, p.204, Penguin UK

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• This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!

  Mitchell Kapor

  People, Noses, Internet

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• Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Humorous, Parenting

  C. S. Lewis (1992). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Class, Sometimes, Failing

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.23

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• There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.

  Henry Ford

  Inspiring, Education, Attitude

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.166, 谷月社

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• Although the rudiments of snobbery are there, its finer developments are basically alien to the Australian soul - that is, if Australians have a soul; many people believe that they are too matter-of-fact and down-to-earth to have such fancy commodities.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Believe, Humor

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• In the field of snobbery, Australia is an underdeveloped country; even a few British ex-colonies, regarded as under developed in all other respects, could export a great deal of snobbery to Australia and still have enough to spare for their own, internal needs.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Country, Humor

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• There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

  Robbie Williams

  Art, Kind, Form

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• There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.

  Norman Foster

  Art, Math, Reality

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• As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the cliché that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.

  Florence King

  Education, Children, Technology

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.77, Macmillan

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• When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery.

  C. S. Lewis

  Intellectual, Secret, Listening

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works”, HarperCollins UK

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• That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.

  Bertrand Russell

  Plato, Should Have, People

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.436, Routledge

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• Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I'm a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have absolutely no guilty pleasures at all. No graphic novels. No murder mysteries. My summer read is really no different from my winter read. I know many bookshops and magazines would have me believe that our summer forays are different, but literature is literature, and unfortunately snobbery is snobbery.

  Colum McCann

  Summer, Book, Reading

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• The derision comes from snobbery, which I think is the worst thing for art and music. I don't think there's any place for it and it comes from insecurity.

  Theo Hutchcraft

  Art, Thinking, Insecurity

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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