Tanushree Dutta Quotes

That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.

'Worshipping in private,' as Obama does, comes off as just another form of annoying elitism.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.

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

I never invite idiots to my house.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

Draco's not really a bully. He's not exactly the biggest, strongest guy in the world. He's more a rich, snobby person. He thinks of himself as really cool.

'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.

The general consumption of any commodity by the vulgar lessens, on the contrary, in many minds, the pleasure it would otherwise give. It brings down the individual, in this particular, to a level with the lowest

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

In the field of snobbery, Australia is an underdeveloped country; even a few British ex-colonies, regarded as under developed in all other respects, could export a great deal of snobbery to Australia and still have enough to spare for their own, internal needs.

But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

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.

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.

I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

Famous designers think nothing of putting their names on your clothing, but would have the servants set the dogs on you if you ever tried to put your name on their clothing.

Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.

I thought of inviting you to my other club but you know how it is. Lunching there is a useful way of reminding people that you're still alive, but the members will come up and congratulate you on the fact.

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.