Top 24 Quotes About Snobbishness
#1. You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud of it. If one had a right to be proud of anything, it would be of a continued decent tradition back of one.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
#2. The real objection to modernism is simply that it is a form of snobbishness. It is an attempt to crush a rational opponent not by reason, but by some mystery of superiority, by hinting that one is specially up to date or particularly in the know.
G.K. Chesterton
#3. The group shared a combination of extreme marginality and arrogant snobbishness.
Stephen Greenblatt
#4. I cannot bear to think that our young men are merely living four years in a country club and spending their lives wholly in a spirit of calculation and snobbishness.
John Grier Hibben
#5. Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A sort of cross-section of the money world. A panorama of ignorance, greed, vulgarity, snobbishness, whoredom and disease.
George Orwell
#6. The art business is a rarified business and appeals to an audience capable of spending money on a luxury. Too often the atmosphere in a gallery borders on snobbishness.
Scott Kahn
#7. These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.
Isadora Duncan
#8. Along with Chesterton, I've had to take my place among those who acknowledge that we are what is wrong with the world. What is my snobbishness toward my childhood church, for instance, but an inverted form of the harsh judgment it showed me?
Philip Yancey
#9. I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#10. Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.
George Orwell
#11. Contrary to popular opinion, classical music does not have to be enjoyed amid exclusive circles, there need not be any snobbishness attached to it. It's there for everyone. I play for the people.
Andre Rieu
#12. [Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.
Joseph Epstein
#13. My enemies embarrassed you. So they embarrassed me, Darrow. You told me you would win. But then you lost. And that changes everything.
Pierce Brown
#14. I had never thought much of genealogy. A lot of wasted time collecting the names of the dead. Then stringing those names, like skulls upon a wire, into an entirely private and thus irrelevant narrative, lacking any historical significance. The narcissistic pastime of nostalgic bores.
Joshua Ferris
#15. There is sadness and confusion in our hearts / And the world prepares to fight / as it tears itself apart, it isn't fair
Kim Wilde
#16. Holy shit, it's like porn with the romance.
Katy Evans
#17. You don't cook pumpkins in the summer, you don't cook peaches in the fall.
Kathryn Stockett
#18. Marketa pressed her hand against her stinging cheek. She was too stunned to cry, for her mother had never struck her before. She looked at her twin sisters, whose faces blanched, and they clutched each other in fear.
Linda Lafferty
#19. Why don't you just get the bunny slippers with fangs Myrin?
Rachel Caine
#20. Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.
E.C. Riegel
#21. If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards
Rudyard Kipling
#22. The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe.
Frank Rizzo
#24. I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it.
Ray Bradbury
