71 Quotes About Snobbery
- Author Nicholas Blake
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This room was a veritable jungle of heirlooms, and an admirable setting for Lady Marlinworth, who, in spite of her age, had lost none of her agility in climbing up and down family trees.
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- Author Paul J. Griffiths
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The connoisseur's hushed, museum-trained gaze is not well-designed for these purposes. That gaze values subtlety, complexity, ambiguity, and irony. Its most characteristic grace note is self-congratulation at being the kind of person who likes this rare and beautiful thing, whatever it may be, laced always with contempt for those too crude, too uneducated, or too simple to be able do so.
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- Author Michael Foley
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Snobbery management is as difficult and necessary as anger management.
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- Author Joseph Epstein
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High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and much else -- far from being snobbish, are required to maintain decency in life.
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- Author Elaine Dundy
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The shabbier the snobbier.
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- Author Chrissy Moon
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My theory was that if you spent such a big portion of your life being a snob, you were not allowed to be surprised when people start wishing you dead.
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- Author William Donaldson
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Questions, Hypothetical: Needn't be answered. No one knows why.Schools, Public: They teach you to stand on your own two feet. 'No doors on the lavatories. That sorts the men from the boys'.Snobbery, Inverted: The worst kind. No need to explain why.
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- Author Robert Lane Greene
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A stickler hallmark is that those who speak or write differently can't merely be wrong; they must be depraved, too.
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