#snob

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The genres, it is thought, have other designs on us. They want to entertain, as opposed to rubbing our noses in the daily grit produced by the daily grind. Unhappily for realistic novelists, the larger reading public likes being entertained.


Margaret Atwood


#genre-snobbery #nonfiction #popularity #reading #design

I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English ‘education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school — I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave.


George Orwell


#england #public-school #snobbery #education

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


Dan Rather


#listen #lone #lone ranger #overture #ranger

Questions, Hypothetical: Needn't be answered. No one knows why. Schools, Public: They teach you to stand on your own two feet. 'No doors on the lavatories. That sorts the men from the boys'. Snobbery, Inverted: The worst kind. No need to explain why.


William Donaldson


#men

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


Joseph Epstein


#snobbery #men

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.


Freeman Dyson


#consider #evil #generally #inventors #people

I'm not a film snob.


Tracey Ullman


#i #snob

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.


Tom Felton


#bully #cool #draco #exactly #guy

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.


Sally Field


#come #comedy #did #especially #film

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.


John Cleese


#off #people #put #snobbery #stuff