Pierre was rarely rude, but when he was, he aped Royal British snobbery at their best.
Undoubtedly, many men and women of genius have evinced the specific snobbery of culture.
To a host of minor essayists, journalists, and literary hangers-on, Carlyle set that fashion of priggishness and snobbery that prevails so widely at the present time.
The primitive quality of these bowls perfectly suited the growing inverse snobbery of the tea ceremony, and soon Japanese aesthetes were drinking tea and admiring the Zen beauty in the Korean rice bowl.
Inequality was honourable; amongst the humblest there could be dignity and sweetness; the higher snobbery would have been absurd, because if you were not content to be what you were now, how could you ever be content with anything?
In this slippery competitive earth snobbery is not unreasonable; but in heaven and hell there are no snobs.
An interesting advocate of the higher snobbery is Nietzsche.
And the occasional pricks and heartburnings of snobbery are entirely drowned, in their case, in its voluminous vicarious joys.
The whole principle of the higher snobbery would be abandoned, and Nietzsche in the end would only lead us back to Epictetus.
How entirely limpid is his sympathy with life--a sympathy uncontaminated by dogma or pedantry or snobbery or bias of any kind!
That is why snobbery is really a vice: it tempts us to neglect and despise our proper virtues in aping those of other people.
Snobbery haunts those who are not reconciled with themselves; evolution is the hope of the immature.
There is a very obvious form ofsnobbery that we are quick enough to detect, the snobbery that looks down on people who have to work hard and wear shabby clothes.
But he had one saving virtue; he never practised hissnobbery on the old man who encouraged it.
Snobbery is alien to his nature, but he becomes a snob for Tammas's sake.
This is a much greater strain upon character, a more vulgar form of snobbery than the reverence for title; for a title means that sometime, no matter how long ago, some one lived nobly and won his spurs.
Therefore it is not snobbery to desire to see these people on whom have fallen the ermine of power.
But I do not think that snobberyis involved in the other.
Here we become acquainted both with the Sedley and with the Osborne families, with all their domestic affections and domestic snobbery, and have to confess that the snobbery is stronger than the affection.
All of which is very good fun, with a dash of truth in it also as to the snobbery;--only in this it will be necessary to be quite sure where the snobbery lies.
The state of Thackeray's mind when he commenced his delineations of snobbery is here accurately depicted.
Intellectual Snobbery A good many years ago I had a painful experience.
Anyhow, Punch was perfectly sound in his ridicule of the aristocratic pseudo-Socialist who wished to have it both ways, and of the gullibility or snobbery of reporters who ministered to her vanity.
Pet made a snobbery of vice and had many an anecdote of the lapses of the respectable and the circumspectable.
But Dyckman felt that the elder Thropps deserved to be rebuffed with snobbery because of their own snobbery.
I think, I replied, 'it is the sort of snobbery that nations go to Hades for.
There is a fell disease of this century called 'snobbery of the soul.
Because, let me tell you that all this false modesty about your position is only snobbery dressed out in a new disguise.
But something like a change of heart is still possible; and since all the evils of snobbery and segregation are rampant in our schools at present we may as well make the best as the worst of them.
In living with people who have been brought up to different ways of life, a consideration of cleanliness is forced upon one; for nothing else rouses so instantaneously and violently the latent snobbery that one would fain be rid of.
She was a very clever woman, for snobbery had blunted and demoralized only one small chamber of her brain, and she had as comprehensive a knowledge of the world as any woman in it.
What were the governors of the Lenox about--a lot of snivelling hypocrites, pandering to the horrified snobberyat the Patroons!
His England was a land the original elements of which would not change, had not changed; for the old small inner circle had not been invaded, was still impervious to the wash of wealth and snobbery and push.
I have often thought that I should like to see our universities break away from that sentiment of intellectual snobbery and open up opportunities for their students to become familiar with the late Latin literature.
At least Germany knows nothing of this weekly auction of privacy, this nauseating snobbery which is a fungus-growth seen at its strongest in British soil.
Oh, I have no snobbery myself about working with my hands," added he, hastily.
It should lead every colored Congressman to make sure that he either sends a colored applicant or a white one who has not the seeds of snobbery and caste in his soul.
But there is a remedy, a way to root out snobbery and prejudice which but needs adoption to have the desired effect.
It should lead every colored Congressman to make sure that he either sends a colored applicant or a white one who has not the seeds of snobbery or caste in his soul.
He loathed superstition, cant and snobbery and said so in a way that gave much pain to the nicest people.
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