"Highbrow" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not. At least they call it heart failure induced by an overdose, or some such claptrap. It's all right. We don't want to be worried with an inquest. But I guess Tuppence and I and even the highbrow Sir James have ...
— The Secret Adversary • Agatha Christie
... found a highbrow one who preferred the opera. Had he not sat through Parsifal the week before? And nearly died! Some wanted to begin at Tod Sloan's bar and work their way up through Montmartre, ending with breakfast at the Pre Catalan. Those were the greedy ...
— Cheerful—By Request • Edna Ferber
... "Sure, she's a highbrow. Highbrows always cerebrate about the movies in one way or another. Nancy doesn't get it at just that angle, of course. She hasn't got Caroline's intellectual appetite. She's not interested in the movies because she hasn't got a moving-picture house of her own. The world is ...
— Outside Inn • Ethel M. Kelley
... New England family I accused them of being "highbrows," and they gave me these modern synonyms for highbrow and lowbrow, ...
— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor |
