There is a little bit of snobbery with casting, and unless you're a really successful comedian like Ruth Jones, you don't get to be in the drama side of things.

Music was segregated in the '80s, and then in the '90s the boundaries started to break down, and rock kids got into electronic music. But then you got this reverse snobbery where people would only listen to electronic music and not rock.

When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in the acting profession. But that wasn't sexism, it was snobbery, which I knew and took very humbly.

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.

Soaps are great. You learn to work very fast - some say superficially, but that's not really true. You do some very serious character work. I've never had any feelings about a stigma attached to it, and nowadays there seems to be less snobbery about what you do. More and more big names are doing TV and commercials and voiceovers.

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

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

Critics established a snobbery toward me.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

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

In men this blunder still you find,- All think their little set mankind.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization.

All the people like us are We, And every one else is They.

Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

There was a certain inner comfort in knowing he could knock down anybody who was snooty toward him, although, being very shy and a throughly nice boy, he never fought except in the gym.

We must exclude someone from our gathering, or we shall be left with nothing.

Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.