Snob Quotes

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them. (John Buchan)
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. View quote
Salvador Dalí
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. View quote
Dan Rather
He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
The man who worships mere wealth is a snob. View quote
Anthony Trollope
I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you. View quote
William Faulkner
great gandalfs ghost! if he had a ghost. i doubt it. he was such a snob... View quote
Margaret Weis
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. View quote
Joe Elliott
I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob. View quote
Aby Rosen
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. View quote
Glen Hansard
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)
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. View quote
Kathryn Hahn
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. View quote
Alain de Botton
President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob! There are good, decent men and women who go out and work hard every day and put their skills to test that aren't taught by some liberal college professor and trying to indoctrinate them. Oh, I understand why he wants you to go to college: he wants to remake you in his image. I want to create jobs so people can remake their children into their image, not his. View quote
Rick Santorum
It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
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. View quote
Raymond Chandler
The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Netflix has already gone mainstream. Not mainstream but they've gone snob. They have an angry housewife who's making all the selections. View quote
Lloyd Kaufman
I do like Britney Spears. I think she's cute. I think she's fun. And I like her records. You know, I'm not a pop snob whatsoever. I think she makes great pop records. View quote
Elton John
Mrs. Brisbane-Brown was a relic, but only the unthinking would have called her a snob. For snobbishness implies some sense of insecurity, and she was perfectly secure. View quote
John Buchan
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms. (John Steinbeck)
Even Morgan seems to me to be based on some hidden rock. Talking of Proust and Lawrence he said he'd prefer to be Lawrence; but much rather would be himself. He is aloof, serene, a snob, he says, reading masterpieces only. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Object to the Hollywood film and you're an intellectual snob, object to the avant-garde films and you're a Philistine. But, while in Hollywood, one must often be a snob; in avant-garde circles one must often be a Philistine. View quote
Pauline Kael
She was grumbling. "The least he could have done was drop us near a town. Although in these parts they'd probably burn us as witches before asking any questions.” She shuddered. "I'm an awful snob about peasants, I'm afraid.” I mentioned dryly that I thought those of her political persuasion had some sort of egalitarian duty to resist such prejudice. "Egalitarianism isn't about prejudices,” she said, "it's about equal shares of power. It's the only means we have of steering some sort of even course through a future which is forever, by the very nature of the multiverse, unguessable. We have only institutions and a crude, fragile kind of democracy standing between us and absolute Chaos. That is why we must value and protect those institutions. And be forever reexamining them.”. View quote
Michael Moorcock
My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word snob comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women. View quote
Frank Crowninshield