Top 62 Quotes About Snobs

#1. We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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#2. The English are the biggest snobs on earth Harry.

Jeffrey Archer

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#3. All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs.

Anna Julia Cooper

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#4. The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

George Bernard Shaw

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#5. The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Russell Lynes

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#6. There are some people who think runners are snobs. These people are called non-runners. And they're right, of course. There is a certain hubris you develop when you do things no one else does.

Jennifer Graham

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#7. But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, often frighten off the average person from the free development of this appetite.

Sydney J. Harris

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#8. An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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#9. They were snobs or idiots or both ... yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness.

Jennifer Egan

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#10. You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate."
"Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. "I hate them consciously.

Joseph Heller

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#11. My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.

Alan Hovhaness

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#12. I'm from Europe, and I was very aware that there are a lot of literature snobs - especially in Europe. As soon as something becomes a success, it has to be bad, and then they'll do everything they can to stab it to death.

Anne Fortier

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#13. When people lack true culture or are devoid of innovative ideas, they speak about wine, various brands of alcoholic beverages, or the quality of soap.

Dimitris Mita

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#14. When one must sit with the snobs, one belongs with the frightened.

Lucy Freeman

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#15. If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

Aldous Huxley

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#16. You see, everyone thinks they're too good for day-old pastry, like one-third off is charity or something. The world is full of snobs. Snobs and slobs. I ought to write a book.

Wally Lamb

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#17. Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.

Hugh Jackman

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#18. We are all snobs of the Infinite, parvenus of the Eternal.

James Huneker

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#19. [democrats] have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans.

Peggy Noonan

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#20. Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement to mature years, the results may be devastating.

Dimitris Mita

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#21. Also, you may not have noticed, but this is a cupboard."
"I admit that our private office is of modest dimensions," Kami told him, "But that's the way we like it. Just because we're editors doesn't mean we need special privileges. We're not snobs.

Sarah Rees Brennan

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#22. Fantasy? That's for the Fire Birds. Fantasy, even when it takes science-fictional forms, which it often does, is dangerous. It is escapist. It is daydreaming. It has nothing to do with the world and the world's problems.
So said the snobs who did not know themselves as snobs.

Ray Bradbury

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#23. Amateur grammar snobs are a lot like amateur gynecologists--they're everywhere, they're all to eager to offer their services, and they're anything but gentle.

June Casagrande

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#24. These are people who consciously choose failure in order to preserve their own sense of integrity. They are more elitist than mere snobs, because of their high standards.

Azar Nafisi

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#25. What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.

Glen Hansard

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#26. You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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#27. The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves ...

Peter Drucker

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#28. Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.

Camille Paglia

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#29. Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?

Frederick Buechner

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#30. Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors.

Herbert Agar

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#31. I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater balm to the extremities of the senior golfer than the golfmobile, a word that will have to do for want of a better.

Alistair Cooke

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#32. My theory was that if you spent such a big portion of your life being a snob, you were not allowed to be surprised when people start wishing you dead.

Chrissy Moon

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#33. I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.

Rupert Murdoch

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#34. 'Venti caramel macchiato, please,' he said. 'Hold the snobbery.'
The barista laughed and hit buttons on his register. 'You sure? We're having a sale on social mobility. The longer your coffee order takes to place, the more you have to pay.'
'Perfect. Reverse consumerism.'

S.W. Vaughn

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#35. Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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#36. The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.

Khalil Gibran

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#37. Grammar snobs are a distinct breed from their gentle cousins: word nerds and grammar geeks. The difference is bloodlust.

June Casagrande

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#38. We're quick to think of people as snobs, little realizing that perhaps they suffer from the same insecurities that we do.

Ken Puddicombe

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#39. A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

A.P. Herbert

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#40. Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.

Michael Kinsley

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#41. My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

Robin Tunney

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#42. Books can be terrible snobs.

Simon R. Green

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#43. Julie Seagle: A typical espresso only has 1/3 the caffeine of a regular-size cup of coffee, so all you snobs can bite me. I can out-caffeine you any day. Of course, I can't pretend to be a giant using a non-giant's cup, but I'll deal.

Jessica Park

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#44. Snobs are only fun in Jane Austen Novels.

Cat Winters

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#45. Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.

Albert Payson Terhune

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#46. Good taste is not the birthright of snobs, but a gift from God sometimes found in the unlikeliest of people".

Richard C. Morais

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#47. 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.

William Faulkner

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#48. Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.

Patti Stanger

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#49. 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

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#50. Because that's how snobs deal with uncomfortable subjects. We belittle their importance, laugh at them, and change the subject to weather or sport.

L. H. Cosway

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#51. I'm sure wine snobs look at me and think, how dare you.

Drew Barrymore

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#52. Lila walked by with her nose in the air. In a straight line behind her, six obedient kindergartners waddled like baby geese, singing in unison, 'Row, row, row your yacht ...

Francine Pascal

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#53. There are a lot of snobs out there who disregard these books (romance novels), but they fulfil a need. I am happy and fulfilled in what I am doing and readers love them. And why not? They are harmless and they are fun.

Sara Craven

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#54. I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.

Patrick Ness

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#55. If we don't watch out, the pleasure o be gained from the discriminating enjoyment of food will be lost. It may not be long before the art of fine cooking is viewed as the invention of a handful of snobs ... A whole aspect of living well, of civilization itself, is threatened with extinction.

Benoite Groult

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#56. The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Spiro T. Agnew

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#57. The horror that grand people have for the snobs who strive so hard to make their acquaintance is also felt by masculine men for inverts, and by women for every man who is too much in love with them.

Marcel Proust

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#58. Princes know themselves to be princes, and are not snobs; besides, they believe themselves to be so far above everything that is not of their blood royal that noblemen and commoners appear, in the depths beneath them, to be practically on a level.

Marcel Proust

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#59. The ideal of a well-stocked mind aiming at excellence in all walks of life has been replaced by the dream of a well-stocked wine cellar, the cellar now being a specially made wine cooler strategically placed in one's house, to be viewed by even the most unobservant visitor.

Dimitris Mita

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#60. The disgust of distinguished people for snobs who want to force themselves upon them, the virile man has for the invert, the woman for every man who is too much in love with her.

Marcel Proust

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#61. I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.

Pablo Picasso

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#62. It's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than thesquarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

E. E. Cummings

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