Snobbery Quotes

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. (Yves Saint-Laurent)
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. View quote
Peter Ustinov
All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery. View quote
Louis MacNeice
Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or travelling on a train, instantly identify a person's social background as one can in England. Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness, or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from the cab-driver, the barman, the air-hostess and the drug-store assistant. View quote
Anthony Crosland
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. View quote
Albert Camus
Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair. View quote
Joseph Brodsky
Racism is the snobbery of the poor. View quote
Raymond Aron
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. View quote
Alex Kapranos
Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging. View quote
Alexander Theroux
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
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)
I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours. View quote
Helen Clark
No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be; till he's realized exactly how much right he has to all this snobbery, and sneering, and talking about ‘criminals,' as if they were apes in a forest ten thousand miles away; till he's got rid of all the dirty self-deception of talking about low types and deficient skulls; till he's squeezed out of his soul the last drop of the oil of the Pharisees; till his only hope is somehow or other to have captured one criminal, and kept him safe and sane under his own hat. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
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. View quote
Sally Field
Liberal philosophy, at this point, ceases to be empirical and British in order to become German and transcendental. Moral life, it now believes, is not the pursuit of liberty and happiness of all sorts by all sorts of different creatures; it is the development of a single spirit in all life through a series of necessary phases, each higher than the preceding one. No man, accordingly, can really or ultimately desire anything but what the best people desire. This is the principle of the higher snobbery; and in fact, all earnest liberals are higher snobs. View quote
George Santayana
Lin realized that she was living in an unsustainable realm. It combined sanctimony, decadence, insecurity and snobbery in a weird, neurotic brew. It was parasitic. View quote
China Miéville
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. View quote
George Orwell
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. But in any calculation about it one has got to take into account its emotional unity, the tendency of nearly all its inhabitants to feel alike and act together in moments of supreme crisis. It is the only great country in Europe that is not obliged to drive hundreds of thousands of its nationals into exile or the concentration camps. View quote
George Orwell
Why the fiction of ideas should be so neglected is beyond me. I can't explain it, except in terms of intellectual snobbery. ... If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me, I'd have killed myself. I think he was too hung up. I'm glad Kurt Vonnegut didn't like me either. He had problems, terrible problems. He couldn't see the world the way I see it. I suppose I'm too much Pollyanna, he was too much Cassandra. Actually I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both. But I don't think I'm too overoptimistic. View quote
Ray Bradbury
The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature. View quote
Alan Bennett
I'll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren't right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I do find their wine snobbery something unbearable. (Rod Stewart)
There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A. View quote
Gordon Ramsay
I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world. View quote
Diane Lane
My snobbery made me do it. View quote
John Lithgow
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. View quote
John Piper