Class Snobbery Quotes

Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.

The English don't like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It's alright if they come from an 'intellectual,', but from a pop star you're getting ahead of yourself. Part of the class game is that you shouldn't rise above your station, and to start talking about concepts if you're in the pop world is getting a bit uppity, isn't it?

... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?

Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

Class and the snobbery it provokes still matter far too much in Britain, but we are a far more mobile society than we used to be.

I don't see how a socialist government can tolerate hunting on horseback. The people who do this are snobs; they're very well-to-do.

It's one thing to be a high achiever; it's quite another to privately sneer at your girlfriend's friends after feigning friendliness because they have the "misfortune" to drive a bus for a living.