Snobbery Quotes - page 2

At least when it comes to food, there's no snobbery in Singapore. (Kevin Kwan)
Critics established a snobbery toward me. View quote
Esther Williams
In the snobbery of science, each branch attempts to rise in the social scale by imitating the methods of the next higher science and by ignoring the methods and phenomena of the sciences beneath. View quote
Gilbert N. Lewis
Soaps are great. You learn to work very fast - some say superficially, but that's not really true. You do some very serious character work. I've never had any feelings about a stigma attached to it, and nowadays there seems to be less snobbery about what you do. More and more big names are doing TV and commercials and voiceovers. View quote
Charles Shaughnessy
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. View quote
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank
That Somerset Maugham anthology Cakes and Ale. How destructive he is, venomous, pulling everything down in biting, corrosive cynicism. Yet somewhere deep down under all the conceit, sarcasm and snobbery is real quivering pain, helpless bewilderment at the inexplicable fact that human nature is chequered. And what perplexes him is less the common, mean element in decent people than the goodness and kindness of wicked, vicious ones. View quote
Ida Friederike Görres
Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff. View quote
Leonard Bernstein
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. View quote
Freeman Dyson
In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob. View quote
Simon Cowell
Conformity-enforcing packs of viscious children and adults gradually shape the social complexes we know as religion, science, corporations, ethnic groups, and even nations. The tools of our cohesion include ridicule, rejection, snobbery, self-righteousness, assault, torture, and death by stoning, lethal injection, or the noose. A collective brain may sound warm and fuzzily New Age, but one force lashing it together is abuse. View quote
Howard Bloom
Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it. (John Cleese)
One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism. View quote
Henry Rollins
There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form. View quote
Robbie Williams
My mum especially listens to music in a way that is incredibly feelings-based. There's virtually no snobbery about what sounds are in it, she just wants to hear a song and that is quite refreshing. View quote
James Blake
Whereas elsewhere in Europe, no educated man would be caught dead speaking a vernacular, the Irish thought that all language was game-and too much fun to be deprived of any part of it. They were still too childlike and playful to find any value in snobbery. View quote
Thomas Cahill
Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings. View quote
Cary Grant
Make no mistake, there's formula detective fiction, there's formula science fiction...but there's formula literary fiction too. It's genre snobbery that we're only ready to acclaim stuff that's of the genre but different in some way. It's sci-fi but, it's fantasy but... I didn't want to write a but. View quote
Marlon James
Born and bred a member of the leather-aproned class, Franklin was, at least for most of his life, more comfortable with artisans and thinkers than with the established elite, and he was allergic to the pomp and perks of a hereditary aristocracy. Throughout his life he would refer to himself as "B. Franklin, printer." From these attitudes spring what may be Franklin's most important vision: an American national identity based on the virtues and values of its middle class. Instinctively more comfortable with democracy than were his fellow founders, and devoid of the snobbery that later critics would feel toward his own shopkeeping values, he had faith in the wisdom of the common man and felt that a new nation would draw its strength from what he called "the middling people." Through his self-improvement tips for cultivating personal virtues and his civic-improvement schemes for furthering the common good, he helped to create, and to celebrate, a new ruling class of ordinary citizens. View quote
Walter Isaacson