71 Quotes About Snobbery
- Author Abhijit Naskar
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Society is built by determination, not designation.
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- Author Miles Watson
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No one knew much about the Twenty-Eighth Infantry. It was not a glamour outfit. They knew about the Big Red One and the Screaming Eagles, about the Eighty-Second Airborne and Hell On Wheels, but not about Twenty-Eighth Infantry. The name was met with a certain silence, as if he was in a room full of Harvard graduates and told them his degree was by correspondence.
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- Author Margalit Fox
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At bottom, Conan Doyle for the Defense is a story about class identification: those snap judgments, themselves dark diagnostic instruments, that in every age are wielded to separate 'us' from 'them.
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- Author Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.
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- Author Dan Rather
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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
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- Author Bruno Jasieński
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Historja tych filmów bywa prosta, banalna, w banalności swej gryząca, jak machorka. Filmy takie, wyświetlane dziesiątkami w podmiejskich iluzjonach, wyciskają łzy z oczu sentymentalnych szwaczek.
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- Author G.K. Chesterton
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The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
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- Author Robert Lane Greene
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Like so many of his successors in the language-crank world today, though, (Jonathan) Swift not only loathes (the) banal and common change (language); he ascribes it to moral failing.
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- Author Grace Fiorre
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Confidence is good, but when they hold their heads high like that, it just makes them look cocky and snobbish.
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