Snubbed Quotes

#1. Louise Brown's birth marked the end of the beginning of human IVF, acclaimed at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. This event was snubbed by some clinicians now styled as 'pioneers', who shouted that the test-tube claim was a fake! They did not matter.

Robert Edwards

#2. Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

J. M. W. Turner

#3. I'm not really an awards person. I've got a couple of gongs over my time, but I tend to be snubbed anyway for some reason.

Anthony Warlow

#4. The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Mary Wilson Little

#5. When you sever ties with the unit purely for self-serving intentions, you are likely to find yourself stranded and struggling to survive; fighting to keep your head above water. What's more, there is no one to save you because you've turned your back on your comrades and snubbed your support system.

Carlos Wallace

#6. The more competition, the better. I hope to get snubbed again this year.

Nathan Lane

#7. I remember as a child going around with "Votes For Women" balloons. I learnt early what it is to be snubbed for a good cause.

Katharine Hepburn

#8. You might be a redneck if you have refused to watch the Academy Awards since Smokey and the Bandit was snubbed for best picture.

Jeff Foxworthy

#9. Damian Lillard is having a better year than Chris Paul. Lillard got snubbed when he was left off of the USA Men's Basketball team, and now the All-Star team.

Kenny Smith

#10. Hitler didn't snub me - it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.

Jesse Owens

#11. Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.

Kin Hubbard

#12. [That] was the cruelty of fate, whether you were dying at sea or simply trying to get through high school. Sometimes fate kissed you. Sometimes it snubbed you. Sometimes it passed you a love note, and that note was a lie.

Kathy Hepinstall

#13. Gentle reader, did you ever feel yourself snubbed? Did you ever, when thinking much of your own importance, find yourself suddenly reduced to a nonentity? Such was Eleanor's feeling now.

Anthony Trollope

#14. Everybody who has ever been snubbed, you know that is very humiliating.

Jennifer Aniston

#15. Being snubbed is not always a bad thing at awards shows because you end up getting a lot of people coming up to you and telling you how great you are.

Amy Poehler

#16. Especially when it comes to something like the awards, I find it kind of baffling that 'True Blood' has been snubbed so many times given the incredible range of acting they have on there; I mean, incredible storytelling and the incredible production values.

Denis O'Hare

#17. If you've been snubbed, or ignored, or frustrated, and your life's pretty drab and empty, I suppose you get a sense of power from stabbing in the dark at people who are happy and enjoying themselves.

Agatha Christie

#18. Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.

Henry Ward Beecher

#19. It will always hurt to be laughed at, snubbed, ignored or attacked by others. But I would remind you that the human personality grows through adversity, provided it is not crushed in the process.

James Dobson

#20. Like most thin-skinned people who have been snubbed, he could not leave the snubbers alone.

M.C. Beaton

#21. Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.

Edna O'Brien

#22. I got snubbed about eight times for the Mid-Summer Classic, and I know what type of career I had, and I know that I'm a true All-Star. The selection process is not very accurate.

Frank Thomas

#23. Wow. Snubbed by a homeless guy. My night was getting better and better

Jenn Bennett

#24. I know aliens from other worlds are required to arrive in New Mexico, but why stay there?

Roger Ebert

#25. A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.

Thomas Aquinas

#26. Other Afghans from American, or from Europe," Amra says, "they come and take picture of her. They take video. They make promises. Then they go home and show their families. LIke she is zoo animal. I allow it because I think maybe they will help. But they forget. I never hear from them.

Khaled Hosseini

#27. Iran is actively pursuing the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.

Howard Berman

#28. Democracy ... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

John Adams

#29. Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good.

Theodore Bikel

#30. Mind your words, dear writer for you are holding a delicate reader in them.

Maria Stoica

#31. Most businesses change in character and quality over the years, sometimes for the better, perhaps more often for the worse. The investor need not watch his companies' performance like a hawk; but he should give it a good, hard look from time to time.

Benjamin Graham