Snobbery Joseph Quotes & Sayings

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

The bus was crowded, standing room only, and he clung apelike from a bar that hung down from the ceiling. It was humiliating to be packed in with all these people; it reminded him of a cattle car or worse, a sardine can, or worse...but what could be worse than this? — Joseph G. Peterson

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

No matter how damaged we were by our lives, we are whole when we are together — Jaden Wilkes

Stalin was always exceptional, even from childhood. We have relied on Trotsky's unrecognizably prejudiced portrait for too long. The truth was different. Trotsky's view tells us more about his own vanity, snobbery and lack of political skills than about the early Stalin. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

Figure a man's only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America. — Frank Nugent

[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them. — Joseph Epstein

When he rebels, a man
identifies himself with other men and so surpasses himself, and from this point of view human solidarity
is metaphysical. — Albert Camus

I don't like to sugarcoat, it can cause an addiction to B.S. — Angel M.B. Chadwick

Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers. — Billy Collins

A right which goes unrecognized by anybody is not worth very much. — Simone Weil

Look. You are playing poker (I assume you know poker, or at least - like a lot of people - anyway play it.) You draw cards. When you do that, you affirm two things: either that you have something to draw to, or are willing to support to your last cent the fact that you have not. You dont draw and then throw the cards in because they are not what you wanted, expected, hoped for; not just for the sake of your own soul and pocket-book, but for the sake of the others in the game, who have likewise assumed that unspoken obligation. — William Faulkner

We all have a piece of God in us — Sunday Adelaja