Quotes of Snob - somelinesforyou

“ The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon. ”

- Russell Lynes

“ I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you. ”

- William Faulkner

“ Robertson was expressing the wishes of the US elitist... this is true terrorism. ”

- Hugo Chavez

“ Snobs talk as if they had begotten their ancestors. ”

- Herbert Agar

“ The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them. ”

- John Buchan

“ Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. ”

- Peter Ustinov

“ A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence. ”

- Matthew

“ No place in England where everyone can go, is considered respectable. ”

- George Moore

“ All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

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

- Dan Rather

“ Well, I was becoming more of a jazz snob, in thinking that jazz was a higher kind of music, and that R&B was, yes, for the body and more commercial. ”

- Herbie Hancock

“ Those who forget their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs. ”

- William Makepeace Thackeray

“ Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world. ”

- Russell Lynes

“ The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing them. This is followed either by complete and pained silence or a comment such as That's really a very pleasant little water color you have there. ”

- Russell Lynes

“ Snobbery exists in all areas of life, not least literary criticism. By snobbery I mean, any method of judging someone or something whereby you latch on to one or two features about them/it, and use these to come to a definitive, immovable judgement. In intellectual matters, the snob will often take the external features of a work as a guide to its value. ”

- Alain de Botton
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