Top 45 Snobbery Quotes

The right-wing conservatives are so entitled in their snobbery that no one is ever good enough for them, so the rest of us, especially moderates, must suffer.

It’s the people who transcend their backgrounds who are interesting to me. I have got a bit of inverted snobbery.

Music was segregated in the ’80s, and then in the ’90s the boundaries started to break down, and rock kids got into electronic music. But then you got this reverse snobbery where people would only listen to electronic music and not rock.

If there is a snobbery, then they haven’t been on set to see how a show like ‘EastEnders’ works. Because I know for a fact that some of my favourite actors are still not capable of doing what these guys do.

Food is the only snobbery allowed. Imagine pulling up in your expensive car alongside somebody at the lights with a cheap car and saying, ‘Is that all you’ve got?’ But people do it with food.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general – it’s kind of a despised art form.

Critics established a snobbery toward me.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

In the snobbery of science, each branch attempts to rise in the social scale by imitating the methods of the next higher science and by ignoring the methods and phenomena of the sciences beneath.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

In TV, film, and music there’s a lot of snobbery, and I don’t like it. I’ve never been a cultural snob.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

Inverted snobbery is just as dangerous as snobbery itself, you know – that pride in having nothing.

Of course, there’s a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that’s part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.

Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that’s codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

I’ll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren’t right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I do find their wine snobbery something unbearable.

The British are actually a lot more appreciative of the comic. In Canada, if you’re perceived as a comic writer, there’s a real snobbery, and you can’t be serious. You’re not a big hitter.

My mum especially listens to music in a way that is incredibly feelings-based. There’s virtually no snobbery about what sounds are in it, she just wants to hear a song and that is quite refreshing.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

At least when it comes to food, there’s no snobbery in Singapore.

There’s a real kind of snobbery in the U.K. about horror films.

I feel that I have an impractical and deleterious snobbery about the relation of literature to the market. I thought, ‘I’ve become the kind of crap you buy at airports!’ It was exciting, but it was not a fantasy I’d ever had.

There’s a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it’s an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.

I think sometimes with politics, young people especially have become disillusioned with it, because they can’t relate to it, there’s a lot of snobbery and people are a lot older.

There is an intellectual snobbery that, regrettably, many academics suffer from. They are proud their paper is only read by a small group of people – makes it very exclusive. Let’s get rid of that. If it’s truly important, people should be excited about it.

We learned pretty early on in this band that you can’t have snobbery in music.

There’s no snobbery in me.

At 18 years old, you don’t think about the impact the job will have on the future. You’re not completely switched on to how society views women, so while it was such a great experience there is still a snobbery about ‘Page 3,’ which is a huge shame.

Don’t get me wrong – intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche.

There’s been a kind of inverse snobbery about culture. I get the feeling some people would look at Shakespeare and say, that’s a bit too intimidating for working-class people.

I just can’t imagine anyone in the United States military who would not understand the distinction between a jihadist and a radical Islamist and Muslims. I think that is snobbery from elitists. It goes to the issue, it seems to me, of an orthodoxy, a political correctness that has infiltrated the U.S. Army.

How advertising is handled has always been a key distinction between low and high order publishing. The higher you stood, the more separate you were from advertising, and, in the logic of snobbery, the greater a premium price the top brands would pay to be in your company.

Class and the snobbery it provokes still matter far too much in Britain, but we are a far more mobile society than we used to be.

I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one’s own past failings.

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don’t have PhDs.

I’ve found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

There is a little bit of snobbery with casting, and unless you’re a really successful comedian like Ruth Jones, you don’t get to be in the drama side of things.

There was really a snobbery from people in film – they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

Just ’cause something’s popular, it can still be good. In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right. People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.

Snobbery just inhibits you.

Podcast listening carries with it a faint aura of cultural snobbery, a notion that to cue up an episode is to do something highbrow and personally enriching, whether it’s a history lecture broadcast from a university or an amateur talk show recorded in someone’s garage.