Quotes Tagged With :snobbery

M. Proust was more severe than M. de Caillavet on Anatole France: "He was selfish and supercilious. He....

Can I help you?" he said, in a manner which indicated very clearly that not only did he not wish to help....

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like....

Lewis had experienced more trauma than most of his modern readers ever will.

[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.

No one knew much about the Twenty-Eighth Infantry. It was not a glamour outfit. They knew about the Big....

I know he's rich. He knows he's rich, too.

I hate this complete obsession with class, especially at this place, you can hardly say 'hello' to anyone....

I am no novel-reader -- I seldom look into novels -- Do not imagine that I often read novels -- It is....

I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume,....