Snobbery with Violence Quotes

“Charging commercial institutions with failure to educate public taste is an indulgence from which intellectuals will only be deterred when they grasp that a non-existant contract can be neither breached nor enforced. If commerce is to be indicted for anything, it can only be for commercialism, and whether that is a crime or not is a political question.”
― Colin Watson, Snobbery with Violence: English Crime Stories and Their Audience

“Real life is disobliging. People like to think, or feel, in black and white. Having to assess the relative values of all those intermediate greys is tiresome and perplexing.”
― Colin Watson, Snobbery with Violence: English Crime Stories and Their Audience