"The truth is, everyone likes to look down on someone. If your favorites are all avant-garde writers who throw in Sanskrit and German, you can look down on everyone. If your favorites are all Oprah Boo..."
- Brent Weeks
"Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind."
- Amit Kalantri
"You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways. You do, don't you? Yet all you put in their place is a horrid little refusal to have nasty thought..."
- John Fowles
"There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another."
- Dorothy Salisbury Davis
"The public has a taste for supping with the great."
- Ulick O'Connor
"Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died."
- Peter Ustinov
"The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them."
- John Buchan
"No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable."
- George Moore
"Snobs talk as if they had begotten their ancestors."
- Herbert Agar
"A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence."
- Brander Matthews