Quotes Tagged With :snobbery

We had enough quite enough snobbery in this world without exporting it to the hereafter.

Can I help you?" he said, in a manner which indicated very clearly that not only did he not wish to help....

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

I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable....

I am no novel-reader -- I seldom look into novels -- Do not imagine that I often read novels -- It is....

Language is changing constantly; printing and modern education have slowed it but have not stopped it.....

I respect traditional people - they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in....

[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.

No one knew much about the Twenty-Eighth Infantry. It was not a glamour outfit. They knew about the Big....

Like so many of his successors in the language-crank world today, though, (Jonathan) Swift not only loathes....