D. J. Taylor Quotes

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

I don't mind snobs, if they have a reason to be a snob.

Snobbery just inhibits you.

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

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

I try to not be or associate with elitists.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.

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.

... more snobbish than their English butlers.

Maybe I'm an elitist, but I don't feel like I am.

There's no snobbery in me.

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

There are people who are just very, very sniffy and snobby and have always sort of looked down their noses at me.

It makes me sad there is still some intellectual snobbery out there.

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

This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

You’ll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don’t want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.” He held out his hand to shake Harry’s, but Harry didn’t take it. “I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, thanks,” he said coolly.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

They may be a little more high brow than we are.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.