#snobbery

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#laughter #snobbery #would

I am no novel-reader -- I seldom look into novels -- Do not imagine that I often read novels -- It is really very well for a novel." Such is the common cant. "And what are you reading, Miss -- ?" "Oh! It is only a novel!" replies the young lady, while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. "It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda"; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language. ↗

— Jane Austen

#reading #snobbery #words #imagination

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

— Rick Riordan

#snobbery #afterlife

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

— Joseph Brodsky

#form #only #snobbery

Physically she was like a swan among more humble fowl – tall, willowy, and exceptionally pretty with fair skin and golden hair, whereas the Chardins were plain and dark, stocky and short. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#snobbery #stereotypes #superficiality #sweet-valley #beauty

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

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

— Helen Clark

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