Russell Lynes Quotes

To be sure, many cultural elite pastimes are easily mocked and annoying.

There's no snobbery in me.

Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

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

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.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

Don't get me wrong - intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche.

... more snobbish than their English butlers.

… an army of Gatsbys wanting not to overturn the social order but only to belong to the upper crust.

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

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

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

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.

Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization.

Although the rudiments of snobbery are there, its finer developments are basically alien to the Australian soul - that is, if Australians have a soul; many people believe that they are too matter-of-fact and down-to-earth to have such fancy commodities.

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

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

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

I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.