#snobbery

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

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

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#becomes #certain #course #elitism #feels

Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#background #culture #deeper #deeper level #get

Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too. ↗

— Gilbert Sorrentino

#fakirs #inauthenticity #phoniness #poseurs #snobbery

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings. ↗

— Cary Grant

#beware #failings #own #past #recognition

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

— Gordon Ramsay

#snobbery

High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and much else -- far from being snobbish, are required to maintain decency in life. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#art #life #snobbery #art

Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself. ↗

— John Hughes

#pretention #pretentiousness #respect #restaurants #snobbery