“ The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them. John Buchan
“ You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways. You do, don't you? Yet all you put in their place is a horrid little refusal to have nasty thought… John Fowles
“ I was to grow used to hearing, around New York, the annoying way in which people would say: 'Edward Said, such a suave and articulate and witty man,' with the unspoken suffix 'for a Palestinian.' It i… Christopher Hitchens
“ The true snob never rests there is always a higher goal to attain and there are by the same token always more and more people to look down upon. Russell Lynes
“ I had never thought much of genealogy. A lot of wasted time collecting the names of the dead. Then stringing those names, like skulls upon a wire, into an entirely private and thus irrelevant narrativ… Joshua Ferris
“ Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. F… Jane Austen
“ The truth is, everyone likes to look down on someone. If your favorites are all avant-garde writers who throw in Sanskrit and German, you can look down on everyone. If your favorites are all Oprah Boo… Brent Weeks
