Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position.
We had enough quite enough snobbery in this world without exporting it to the hereafter.
When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery.
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.
Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or travelling on a train, instantly identify a person's social background as one can in England. Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness, or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from the cab-driver, the barman, the air-hostess and the drug-store assistant.
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.
I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.
There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.
There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.
Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.
Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.
Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff
The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.
Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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.
Whence all this passion towards conformity anyway? Diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you will have no tyrant states. Why, if they follow this conformity business, they'll end up by forcing me, an invisible man, to become white, which is not a color but the lack of one. Must I strive towards colorlessness? But seriously and without snobbery, think of what the world would lose if that should happen. America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one.
Racism is the snobbery of the poor.
In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.