#snobbery

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

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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

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

— Helen Clark

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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

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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

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

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