Snob Quotes

I was quite a snob when I was a theatre actor earlier in my career.

Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.

What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.

What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.

I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time.

Luther Vandross and I met in Roberta Flack's band. He was singing background, I was playing bass, and Roberta was beautiful. She's like the mom to all these young musicians in New York. At that time that I met Luther, I was a musician snob. For me, the singers were just the people out in the front to keep the audience entertained. While the musicians did the real work.

Writers tend to hate recurring characters; there's this writer snob thing about it. But I don't have that. I feel like the challenge is always to find a cool and innovative way to do it and, obviously, to not repeat your jokes.

An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

Snobs look down on people, and I look down on everyone. Not in a snooty, classist way - I mean because I'm better than everyone. I don't give a s**t about good manners.

Great gandalfs ghost! if he had a ghost. i doubt it. he was such a snob.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

We are all snobs of the Infinite, parvenus of the Eternal.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms

I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.

I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.

The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.

The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side

My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.

They call them performance artists, but they shouldn't be making an album. They should just be dancers. I don't know, I'm a musical snob. I feel like if you're going to record music and you're going to be a singer, you have to be able to sing.

I do like Britney Spears. I think she's cute. I think she's fun. And I like her records. You know, I'm not a pop snob whatsoever. I think she makes great pop records.

Also, you may not have noticed, but this is a cupboard." "I admit that our private office is of modest dimensions," Kami told him, "But that's the way we like it. Just because we're editors doesn't mean we need special privileges. We're not snobs.

The only Train song I like is the one that I play in my act "Drops Of Jupiter". Sheryl Crow has three or four songs that I like; also Dave Matthews Band. With those particular musicians, it's more that there are a few songs that I like rather than their entire body of work. There are a lot of indie bands that I like too. I'm not a snob about music. Does the fact that I like Stephen Sondheim and Broadway musicals make me a fake? Does the fact that I'm "the Billy Joel of comedy" mean that I don't have indie-rock credibility?

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.

There are some people, who I'll charitably call snobs, who are dismissive of any conversation that doesn't begin with the full level of complexity. That's just not how the world works.

The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians in their isolation, the most selfish and ungrateful in their cocoons, the most unjust of employers and the most overweening of snobs. The love of Christ embraces all without exception.

A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.

Even the shows or movies that we know are not going to change the world, I love this. I love 'em. I'm a movie fan. I'm a nerd of any kind. I love a big studio comedy as much as I love the teeniest tiniest of indie. I'm not a snob in that way. I really do like a big, big studio comedy.

Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

Lady Gaga has a very unjaded intelligence. It's brilliant, 'cause it's anti-snob.

Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are well-written books and badly written books. There are fun books and boring books. All of these distinctions are vastly more important than the distinction between the literary and the non-literary.

[Bob] Dylan may, for whatever reasons of his own, do nothing of the sort with the Nobel committee. Up there on Parnassus, that is his unquestionable prerogative. But here on my anthill, it's mine to say: oh, do piss off, you ineffable snobs.

I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because entertainment is sort of where it's at.

You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate." "Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. "I hate them consciously.

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

To be honest, I'm a bit of a snob now; give me a Four Seasons anywhere in the world and I'm happy. Also, they've just opened a Ritz-Carlton in County Wicklow, Ireland, which is stunning and has great views.

In terms of pots and pans, I just use the basics - Im not a snob like that.

All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs.

I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living.

Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.

He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

I just think the Kardashians have an absence of taste and I don’t think that that should be perpetuated. I’m sorry I’m sounding like an old farty, snob, but it bothers me.

President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.