71 Quotes About Snobbery

Society is built by determination, not designation.

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.

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.

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

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

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.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

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.

Confidence is good, but when they hold their heads high like that, it just makes them look cocky and snobbish.