Top 120 Snobbery Quotes & Sayings

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

There's a real kind of snobbery in the U.K. about horror films.

Racism is the snobbery of the poor.

It makes me sad there is still some intellectual snobbery out there.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

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.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the same dress.

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.

In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.

Snobbery just inhibits you.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

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.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard.

Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

The derision comes from snobbery, which I think is the worst thing for art and music. I don't think there's any place for it and it comes from insecurity.

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

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.

There's no snobbery in me.

In the field of snobbery, Australia is an underdeveloped country; even a few British ex-colonies, regarded as under developed in all other respects, could export a great deal of snobbery to Australia and still have enough to spare for their own, internal needs.

Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I'm a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have absolutely no guilty pleasures at all. No graphic novels. No murder mysteries. My summer read is really no different from my winter read. I know many bookshops and magazines would have me believe that our summer forays are different, but literature is literature, and unfortunately snobbery is snobbery.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

It's the people who transcend their backgrounds who are interesting to me. I have got a bit of inverted snobbery.

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position.

Snobbery management is as difficult and necessary as anger management.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music.

I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

Don't get me wrong - intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche.

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.

Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one.

I have been to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street but cannot get on the BBC. I am very disappointed because it boils down to snobbery.

There's no snobbery or resentment from serious polo people towards those who just come for the party.

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.

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.

There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.

I personally favor old mechanical watches, but my snobbery does not extend to demanding that all people wear them. My snobbery demands that no one wear a digital.

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the anti-bourgeois snobbery of people convinced of their right to dictate to the common man in the name of the common man.

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

We had enough quite enough snobbery in this world without exporting it to the hereafter.

The Monarchy...is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

Wine is my passion. I'm not keen on the snobbery or elitism of wine, that's not what it's about - I just really enjoy it.

Inverted snobbery is just as dangerous as snobbery itself, you know - that pride in having nothing.

At least when it comes to food, there's no snobbery in Singapore.

This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!

Critics established a snobbery toward me.

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.