Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There's no snobbery in me.
Snobbery just inhibits you.
Racism is the snobbery of the poor.
Critics established a snobbery toward me.
Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.
All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.
There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.
There's a real kind of snobbery in the U.K. about horror films.
Don't get me wrong - intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche.
At least when it comes to food, there's no snobbery in Singapore.
It makes me sad there is still some intellectual snobbery out there.
We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music.
Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.
Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.
Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.
I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Inverted snobbery is just as dangerous as snobbery itself, you know - that pride in having nothing.
There's no snobbery or resentment from serious polo people towards those who just come for the party.
In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.
I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.
There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.
But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.
It's the people who transcend their backgrounds who are interesting to me. I have got a bit of inverted snobbery.
Class and the snobbery it provokes still matter far too much in Britain, but we are a far more mobile society than we used to be.
The right-wing conservatives are so entitled in their snobbery that no one is ever good enough for them, so the rest of us, especially moderates, must suffer.
I've got lots of friends who would just think, 'Horror movies - they're crap, aren't they?' I think there's a cultural snobbery more than an institutional one.
There is a little bit of snobbery with casting, and unless you're a really successful comedian like Ruth Jones, you don't get to be in the drama side of things.
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.
I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.
There's been a kind of inverse snobbery about culture. I get the feeling some people would look at Shakespeare and say, that's a bit too intimidating for working-class people.
I think sometimes with politics, young people especially have become disillusioned with it, because they can't relate to it, there's a lot of snobbery and people are a lot older.
Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is unacceptable in a diverse and democratic world.
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.
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.
Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.
The British are actually a lot more appreciative of the comic. In Canada, if you're perceived as a comic writer, there's a real snobbery, and you can't be serious. You're not a big hitter.
When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in the acting profession. But that wasn't sexism, it was snobbery, which I knew and took very humbly.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If there is a snobbery, then they haven't been on set to see how a show like 'EastEnders' works. Because I know for a fact that some of my favourite actors are still not capable of doing what these guys do.
The biggest myth I'd like to bust isn't about me - it's about musicals. So many people dismiss the entire art form through highbrow snobbery, but I think a lot of those people would be suprised if they actually saw some.
Just 'cause something's popular, it can still be good. In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right. People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
I feel that I have an impractical and deleterious snobbery about the relation of literature to the market. I thought, 'I've become the kind of crap you buy at airports!' It was exciting, but it was not a fantasy I'd ever had.
You are treated like a cog in a machine. The director might be obsessing so much with the stunts that he doesn't notice your performance, and the producer may just be an insane money man, but I have no snobbery about the movies.