"Highbrow" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... friend Mrs. Post down the aisle and up the steps to the stage of the Carnegie Music Hall with an ill-concealed feeling of grievance. Heaven knew he never went to concerts, and to be mounted upon the stage in this fashion, as if he were a "highbrow" from Sewickley, or some unfortunate with a musical wife, was ludicrous. A man went to concerts when he was courting, while he was a junior partner. When he became a person of substance he stopped that sort ...
— Youth and the Bright Medusa • Willa Cather
... you two are going to discuss me, I'll leave you at it; I'm not a highbrow editor; I'm the poor ad man—my time means money to me." McEwan opened the door, and Mary rose ...
— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
... said testily. "You may be a kind of Galahad, Lawrence, outside all natural law. I don't know, but you'll forgive me if I go for a moment on my own experience—and that experience is, that you can start on as highbrow an elevation as you like, but love doesn't stand still, and the body's the body, and to-morrow isn't yesterday—not by no means. Moreover, Markovitch is a Russian and a peculiar one at that. Finally, remember that ...
— The Secret City • Hugh Walpole
... in for highbrow fellows," said a young woman who had hitherto contented herself with smiling and laughing. "They're ...
— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan
... other things, my boy. Leave me alone to manage what I know how to manage. You let me do it my own way, without shoving in your oar, and don't you listen to what any of your highbrow friends say about me and my methods ...
— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson |
