Snobbery Quotes

The Murchisons are honest-to-God-real-foe-rich colored people, and the only people in the world who are more snobbish than rich white people are rich colored people. I though everybody knew that.

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

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.

English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).

To sneer at his imperfect attempt was very bad breeding.

This is not a "guilty pleasure" of mine, simply because I don't believe in "guilty" pleasures. Snobbery is just the public face of insecurity.

If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable.