Snobby Quotes

• 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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• The Founding Fathers were nothing more than a bunch of snobby English shits.

  Donald Freed

  Father, America, Bunch

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• There's a tendency for people in New York to think the world exists between the East and the Hudson Rivers, and I don't share that opinion. To me the world is a big place and I try to reach people everywhere. Listen, if I'm nothing else, I feel I've been a man of the people. I'm not going to pretend to be one of those snobby New York theater people.

  Frank Wildhorn

  New York, Men, Thinking

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.

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• I'm not necessarily [into] pricey products, and I'm not recommending super-fancy stuff. It's more the consistency and the sunblock of it all, engaging in that process - I can be a little snobby about it.

  June Diane Raphael

  Consistency, Littles, Fancy

  "Grace And Frankie's June Diane Raphael on the joy of calling Donald Trump a 'little bitch'". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. March 22, 2017.

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• I love all reality TV - Strictly, 'The X Factor.' I really don't see why people are so snobby about it.

  Alexandra Roach

  Reality, People, Tvs

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• Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Actors, British

  "Matthew Macfadyen: 'I do have a good eye'". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.

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• I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project.

  Kelly Macdonald

  Done, Tvs, Film

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

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• My goal is: I'm not trying to be snobby, but my clothes are not for everyone, not for every Hollywood celebrity. There is a designer for everyone, and a celebrity for every designer.

  Prabal Gurung

  Clothes, Goal, Trying

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• Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled.

  Silvia Colloca

  Girl, Moving, Eye

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• There are people who are just very, very sniffy and snobby and have always sort of looked down their noses at me.

  John Bercow

  People, Noses

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• Draco's not really a bully. He's not exactly the biggest, strongest guy in the world. He's more a rich, snobby person. He thinks of himself as really cool.

  Tom Felton

  Thinking, Bully, Guy

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• New York was the last place that my movies caught on. I didn't make underground movies in New York, and in the 1960s, they were very snobby about that, because the whole scene was here.

  John Waters

  New York, Lasts, Scene

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I love film acting - I'm not snobby about it. I don't think that theater acting's a more noble profession. I think they're both very important. I love both. And in my dream world, I'd get to do both forever.

  Rebecca Hall

  Dream, Thinking, Forever

  "The Roles of Rebecca Hall". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 13, 2015.

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• I love American ski resorts because they're open to everyone, are not incredibly expensive. They're not snobby and you can have fun all day long on the most excellent mountains.

  John Lydon

  Fun, Long, Mountain

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• Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.

  Mick Jagger

  People, Band, England

  "Jagger Remembers: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.mickjagger.com. December 14, 1995.

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• Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Thinking, People, Brain

  Jacqueline Woodson (2008). “After Tupac and D Foster”, p.21, Penguin

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• People have proven over and over that they will read if they are given something they like. The problem with reading is not reading, its that almost everything out there sucks. For so long, publishing has been run by a cartel of snobby pseudo-intellectual failed writers, and the resulting output has reflected not what the market wants, but what they think people are supposed to read.

  Tucker Max

  Running, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.blogher.com

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• A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Fashion, Ignorance, Order

  "On the Ladies' Passion for Levelling All Distinction of Dress". Essay by Oliver Goldsmith,

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• I lived in a town called New Canaan, which is just outside of Connecticut, where they are far too snobby to even mention celebrities. Many American towns are famous for things like, "See the World's Largest Ball of String!" I think my town's would probably have to be "Most Pretentious People".

  Katherine Heigl

  Thinking, People, Balls

  FHM Interview, October 2000.

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• Greatest misconception about Wikipedia: We aren’t democratic. Our readers edit the entries, but we’re actually quite snobby. The core community appreciates when someone is knowledgeable, and thinks some people are idiots and shouldn’t be writing.

  Jimmy Wales

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Interview with Edward Lewine, www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2007.

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• In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and more efficient, in the same way that Zuckerberg added wealth to the economy even for non-Facebook fans.

  Amity Shlaes

  School, Zuckerberg, Way

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• I like girls who are natural because I am natural in everything I do. If I meet a girl who is snobby and wants special treatment, she's not going to get it from me because she hasn't earned it. But I've been basically lucky because I've mostly met nice girls - and that's what attracts me.

  River Phoenix

  Girl, Nice, Special

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

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• At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over. It is Nielsen ratings and Barnum's axiom and the real bottom line. It is big, big business.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Mean, Humility

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• I’ve always been a sort of self-imposed outsider, not a geeky outsider or a snobby outsider but, I just have a natural desire to live on the fringe. I’m not like a weirdo with a trench-coat but I just prefer to be alone or minimally surrounded by people.

  Sara Quin

  Self, People, Desire

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• It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

  Andy Partridge

  Stupid, Rocks, Would Be

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