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"Highbrow" Quotes from Famous Books

... you suppose mother and I haven't talked it over already." With mock contempt she went on: "You work! What at, I'd like to know. Giving music lessons or writing articles for the ten-cent magazines! It's different with 'yours truly.' I'm not a highbrow. I never cared for books or culture and all that sort of thing. But I guess as a saleslady in some store I'll make a hit. Anyway, I'll make enough to keep things going—so there'll be enough for you and mother. Now—there isn't any use arguing. It's ...

— Bought and Paid For - From the Play of George Broadhurst • Arthur Hornblow

... two girls go in for highbrow fellows," said a young woman who had hitherto contented herself with smiling and laughing. ...

— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan

... in a New England family I accused them of being "highbrows," and they gave me these modern synonyms for highbrow and lowbrow, taken ...

— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor

... God and Jesus Christ, all this sneering, highbrow, rotten, loathesome, higher criticism, wriggling its dirty, filthy, stinking carcass out of a beer-mug in ...

— The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition • Upton Sinclair

... "if it's as hard as all that! I'll bet it's highbrow stuff you want to get out of ...

— The Come Back • Carolyn Wells

Words linked to "Highbrow" : intellect, intellectual, colloquialism, highbrowed