Steven Patrick Morrissey Quotes

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

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

No social class, intellectual category or art form is immune to the snob virus.

I'm one of those pesky Brits.

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

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

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

My friends adore 'TOWIE' - the TV documentary series, 'The Only Way is Essex.' They like it, I'm afraid, for the most unworthy of reasons: class mockery. They tune in to wonder in a 'can you believe those people?' way at the natives of Brentwood and Buckhurst Hill.

There's no snobbery in me.

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

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

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.

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.

I'd be quite excited to play somebody British.

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

... more snobbish than their English butlers.

Free society! We sicken at the name. What is it but a conglomeration of greasy mechanics, filthy operatives, small-fisted farmers, and moon-struck theorists? All the northern, and especially the New England states, are devoid of society fitted for well-bred gentlemen. The prevailing class one meets with is that of mechanics struggling to be genteel, and small farmers who do their own drudgery, and yet are hardly fit for association with a southern gentleman’s body servant.

I met someone with a title on my first day, Baronet von Something, and I thought: 'Look at me, I've really grafted. Who are these people who have just waltzed into Oxford? I don't want to hang out with those people. They're nothing like me.'

There's something awful about Oxford, I think. It's such a little ghetto.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.

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

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.