Quotes Tagged With :snob

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about....

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

The public has a taste for supping with the great.

Lila walked by with her nose in the air. In a straight line behind her, six obedient kindergartners waddled....

M. Proust was more severe than M. de Caillavet on Anatole France: "He was selfish and supercilious. He....

Another factor that seems to me to be equally important is the great myth and rationale of 'the modern,'....

English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down....

When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.....

Snobs talk as if they had begotten their ancestors.

Even his mother, his own mother, had once accused him of being a snob.