#snobbery

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

— Joseph Epstein

#snobbery #men

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

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. ↗

— Albert Camus

#be happy #happy #kind #makes #money

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. ↗

— Albert Camus

#be happy #happy #kind #makes #people

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#laughter #snobbery #would

We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music. ↗

— Mike Shinoda

#early #learned #music #pretty #snobbery

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

— Rick Riordan

#snobbery #afterlife

Anything that doesn't fit this mode has been shoved into an area of lesser solemnity called 'genre fiction,' and it is here that the spy thriller and the crime story and the adventure story and the supernatural tale and the science fiction, however excellently written, must reside, sent to their rooms, as it were, for the misdemeanor of being enjoyable in what is considered a meretricious way. They invent, and we all know they invent, at least up to a point, and they are, therefore, not about 'real life,' which ought to lack coincidences and weirdness and action-adventure, unless the adventure story is about war, of course, where anything goes, and they are, therefore, not solid. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#literary-snobbery #nonfiction #imagination

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

— Joseph Brodsky

#form #only #snobbery

I am Emma Woodhouse. I feel for her, of her and in her. I have a different sort of snobbism, but I understand her snobbism. Her priggishness. I admire it. I know she does wrong things, she tries to organize other people's lives, she can't see Mr Knightley is a man in a million. She's temporarily silly, yet all the time one knows she's basically intelligent. Creative, determined to set the highest standards. A real human being. ↗

— John Fowles

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