"Snobbish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Skipper." Honor accepted his judgments unquestioningly. Some way, with the deep wisdom of boys, he knew, better than she could, that the young Burke person was better on the field than in the drawing-room. There was nothing snobbish in their gatherings; shabby boys came, girls who had made their own little dimity dresses. It was the intangible, inexorable caste of the best boyhood, and Honor knew, comfortably, that her particular King ...
— Play the Game! • Ruth Comfort Mitchell
... squire's hand to take his mother's).—"You're quite right, Mother; nothing could be more snobbish!" ...
— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... upper class not only especially desire these qualities of beauty and courage, but in some degree, at any rate, especially possess them. Thus there is nothing really mean or sycophantic about the popular literature which makes all its marquises seven feet high. It is snobbish, but it is not servile. Its exaggeration is based on an exuberant and honest admiration; its honest admiration is based upon something which is in some degree, at any rate, really there. The English lower classes do not fear the English upper classes in the least; nobody could. ...
— Heretics • Gilbert K. Chesterton
... that was a good one. Oh, well, she's a meek, harmless old soul, and really, my family's not the snobbish sort, you know." ...
— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson
... given for the benefit of a society in which Mrs. Chaikin was an active member, and it was she who had made me pay for the box and solemnly promise to attend the performance. Not that I maintained a snobbish attitude toward the Jewish stage. I went to see Yiddish plays quite often, in fact, but these were all of the better class (our stage has made considerable headway), whereas the one that had been selected by Mrs. Chaikin's society was of the "historical-opera" variety, a hodge-podge ...
— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan
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