Snobbishness Quotes

• Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

  George Orwell

  Views, Hypocrisy, Behaviour

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.

  Isadora Duncan

  Art, People, Rich

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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

  Jobs, Latin, School

  George Orwell Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1986). "Las obras completas de George Orwell: El camino a Wigan Pier"

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• El verdadero esnob nunca descansa; siempre hay una meta más alta que alcanzar y, por la misma razón, siempre hay más y más gente a la que despreciar.

  Russell Lynes

  Verdad, Clase, Gente

  Russell Lynes (1966). "Confesiones de un diletante"

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

  John Buchan

  Men, Definitions, Snob

  John Buchan (2016). “RICHARD HANNAY Complete Collection – 7 Mystery & Espionage Books in One Volume (Unabridged): The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mr Standfast, The Three Hostages, The Island of Sheep, The Courts of the Morning & The Green Wildebeest”, p.1555, e-artnow

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• Lo que la gente valora en sus libros -y, por tanto, lo que consideran literatura- en realidad dice más de ellos que del libro.

  Brent Weeks

  Book, People, Doe

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• Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Silence, Difficult, Silence Is

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1962-1963): A Psychological Revolution”, p.211, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis

  Poor, Snobbery

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “Lullaby of Murder”, p.134, Open Road Media

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• I went to good schools, and I've just always had an allergic reaction to snobbishness - always found myself preferring to blend into the woodwork. I have an affinity to those who, in a sense, failed.

  Larry Fessenden

  School, Good School

  Fuente: film.avclub.com

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• Contrary to popular opinion, classical music does not have to be enjoyed amid exclusive circles, there need not be any snobbishness attached to it. It's there for everyone. I play for the people.

  André Rieu

  Play, Circles, People

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• I cannot bear to think that our young men are merely living four years in a country club and spending their lives wholly in a spirit of calculation and snobbishness.

  John Grier Hibben

  País, Hombres, Pensamiento

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• The art business is a rarified business and appeals to an audience capable of spending money on a luxury. Too often the atmosphere in a gallery borders on snobbishness.

  Scott Kahn

  Art, Luxury, Atmosphere

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• Pocos países han producido tanta arrogancia y esnobismo como Estados Unidos. Esto es particularmente cierto en el caso de la mujer americana de clase media. No sólo se considera igual al hombre, sino superior, especialmente en pureza, bondad y moralidad. No es de extrañar que la sufragista americana reclame para su voto los poderes más milagrosos. En su exaltada presunción no ve cuán verdaderamente esclavizada está, no tanto por el hombre como por sus propias nociones y tradiciones tontas. El sufragio no puede mejorar ese triste hecho; sólo puede acentuarlo, como de hecho lo hace.

  Emma Goldman

  Country, Silly, Men

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.57, PM Press

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• The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Distance, Home, College

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• You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud of it. If one had a right to be proud of anything, it would be of a continued decent tradition back of one.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Stupid, Pride, Proud

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). "Modos y moral"

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• I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  America, Democracy, Ancient

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• As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude and subtle forms of snobbishness and the worship of authority. Thus we become more and more externalized and inwardly empty. The more externalized we are, the more sensations and distractions there must be, and this gives rise to a mind that is never quiet, that is not capable of deep search and discovery.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Thinking, Discovery, Giving

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 2”, p.14, M-y books ltd

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• El silencio es difícil y arduo; no se juega con él. No es algo que se pueda experimentar leyendo un libro, o escuchando una charla, o sentándose juntos, o retirándose a un bosque o a un monasterio. Me temo que ninguna de estas cosas provocará este silencio. Este silencio exige un intenso trabajo psicológico. Tienes que ser ardientemente consciente: consciente de tu forma de hablar, consciente de tu esnobismo, consciente de tus miedos, de tus ansiedades, de tu sentimiento de culpa. Y cuando mueres a todo eso, de esa muerte surge la belleza del silencio.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Libro, Lectura, Silencio

  "Charlas de Krishnamurti en Europa 1962 (acta literal) Londres, Saanen". Séptima charla pública de Jiddu Krishnamurti en Londres, jkrishnamurti.org. 19 de junio de 1962.

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