The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side

The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.

For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi.

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat of the same material, [is] native to the Boston North Shore, the Chicago North Shore, the North Shore of Long Island, to Westchester County, the Philadelphia Main Line and the Peninsula area of San Francisco.

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.