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Michael Bassey Johnson
“When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

“I'm not a snob. Ask anybody. Well, anybody who matters.”
Simon Le Bon

John Buchan
“The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.”
John Buchan
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Toba Beta
“Smell shit when one's bragging.”
Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

Daphne du Maurier
“A pleasantly situated hotel close to the sea, and chalets by the water's edge where one breakfasted. Clientele well-to-do, and although I count myself no snob I cannot abide paper bags and orange peel. ("Not After Midnight")”
Daphne du Maurier, Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories

Alain de Botton
“the word "snobbery" came into use for the first time in England during 1820s. It was said to have derived from the habit of many Oxford and Cambridge colleges of writing sine nobilitate (without nobility) , or "s.nob", next to the names of the ordinary students on examinations lists in order to distinguish them from their aristocratic peers. In the word's earliest days, a snob was taken to mean someone without high status, but it quickly assumed its modern and almost diametrically opposed meaning: someone offended by a lack of high status in others, a person who believes in a flawless equations between social rank and human worth”
Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety

Season Vining
“I'm not a snob. I'm just better than everyone else.”
Season Vining, Perfect Betrayal

John Fowles
“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 thoughts or do nasty things or be nasty in any way. Do you know that every great thing in the story of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?”
John Fowles, The Collector

Toba Beta
“Snob corrupted.”
Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

Jeffrey Eugenides
“-Mi meta en la vida es llegar a ser un adjetivo -dijo-. Que la gente vaya por ah铆 diciendo: 芦Eso era tan bankheadiano禄, o 芦Un poco demasiado bankheadiano para mi gusto禄.
-Bankheadiano suena bien -dijo Madeleine.
-Es mejor que bankheadesco.
-O bankheadino.
-La terminaci贸n en 芦ino禄 es horrible la mires por donde la mires. Hay joyciano, shakesperiano, faulkneriano. Pero en 芦ino禄. 驴Qui茅n hay por ah铆 que sea algo terminado en 芦ino禄?
-驴Thoma Mannino?
-Kafesco -dijo-. 隆Pynchonesco! Mira, Pynchon es ya un adjetivo. Gaddis. 驴C贸mo ser铆a para Gaddis? 驴Gaddiesco? 驴Gaddisio?
-No, con Gaddis no se puede hacer 鈥攄ijo Madeleine.
-No -dijo Leonard- Ha tenido mala suerte, Gaddis. 驴Te gusta Gaddis?
-Le铆 un poco de Los reconocimientos -dijo Madeleine.
Doblaron Planet Street y subieron por la pendiente.
-Belloviano -dijo Leonard-. Es superbonito cuando se cambia alguna letra. Con nabokoviano no pasa: Nabokov ya tiene la 芦v禄. Y Ch茅jov tambi茅n: chejoviano. Los rusos lo tienen f谩cil. 隆Tolstoiano! El tal Tolst贸i era un adjetivo a la espera de formarse.
-No te olvides del tolstoianismo -dijo Madeleine.
-隆Dios m铆o! -dijo Leonard-. 隆Un nombre! Jam谩s hab铆a so帽ado con llegar a ser un nombre.
-驴Qu茅 significar铆a bankheadiano?
Leonard se qued贸 pensativo unos segundos.
-De o relativo a Leonard Bankhead (norteamericano, nacido en 1959). Caracterizado por una introspecci贸n o inquietud excesiva. Sombr铆o, depresivo. V茅ase caso perdido.
Madeleine re铆a. Leonard se detuvo y la cogi贸 del brazo, mir谩ndola con seriedad.
-Te estoy llevando a mi casa -dijo.
-驴蚕耻茅?
-Todo este tiempo que llevamos andando. Te he estado llevando hacia mi casa. Eso es lo que hago normalmente, al parecer. Es vergonzoso. Vergonzoso. No quiero que sea as铆. No contigo. As铆 que te lo estoy diciendo.
-Ya me lo hab铆a figurado, que 铆bamos a tu casa.
-驴厂铆?
-Te lo iba a decir. Cuando estuvi茅ramos m谩s cerca.
-Ya estamos cerca.
-No puedo subir.
-Por favor.
-No. Esta noche no.
-Hannaesco -dijo Leonard-. Testarudo. Dado a posturas inamovibles.
-Hannaesco -dijo Madeleine-. Peligroso. Algo con lo que no se juega.
-Quedo advertido.
Se quedaron de pie, mir谩ndose, en el fr铆o y la oscuridad de Planet Street. Leonard sac贸 las manos de los bolsillos para encajarse la melena detr谩s de las orejas.
-Puede que suba s贸lo un minuto -dijo Madeleine.”
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

Jarod Kintz
“Golfers flexing on other golfers for having Androids will never not be inadvertently hilarious. iPhones are also owned by Janitors, the job that's at the bottom of the perceived status pile, and I'd rather golf with a man who spends his time cleaning than a dirty pseudo snob.”
Jarod Kintz, To be good at golf you must go full koala bear

Toba Beta
“The snobbish lost in laud.”
Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

Abhijit Naskar
“Enough with this condescending outlook of life from a high and mighty, intellectual pedestal! Come down, come down to earth, come down to the street, come down to the soil, for that's where life is.”
Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

Marcel Proust
“Even his mother, his own mother, had once accused him of being a snob.”
Marcel Proust, Jean Santeuil

Kerri Maniscalco
“It was a nice story, but most fairy tales had a dark side to them, especially when it came to a princess鈥檚 fate. 鈥淎 footman or maid?鈥�

鈥淚鈥擨 don鈥檛 believe anyone else is missing,鈥� Lady Crenshaw said. 鈥淏ut Elizabeth wouldn鈥檛鈥� she鈥檚 such a good girl. She probably didn鈥檛 wish to ruin our trip. It鈥檚 not as if she鈥檚 a lower-class trollop.鈥�

I chomped down on my immediate response, face burning. If she were a he, I doubted they鈥檇 call her such names. And her station had nothing to do with the matter whatsoever. Plenty of less fortunate families had more class than Lady Crenshaw had just showed.”
Kerri Maniscalco, Escaping from Houdini

Valentine Glass
“Anyone who tells you they only drink wine old enough to have been bottled by their grandfather is an insecure snob who has never had the sublime pleasure of a box of wine at a barbecue.”
Valentine Glass, The Temptation of Eden

Ir猫ne N茅mirovsky
“Nu limba, legile, obiceiurile sau principiile despart sau unesc fiin葲ele, ci felul identic 卯n care 葲in cu葲itul 葯i furculi葲a.”
Ir猫ne N茅mirovsky, Suite Fran莽aise

Zo毛 Heller
“I don't cook anything fancy. Sheba's appetite isn't up to much and I've never been one for sauces. We eat nursery food mainly. Beans on toast, Welsh rarebit, fish fingers. Sheba leans against the oven and watches me while I work. At a certain point, she usually asks for wine. I have tried to get her to wait until she's eaten something, but she gets very scratchy when I do that, so these days I tend to give in straightaway and pour her a small glass from the carton in the fridge. You choose your battles. Sheba is a bit of a snob about drink and she keeps whining at me to get a grander sort. 'Something in a bottle, at least', she says. But I continue to buy the cartons. we are on a tight budget these days. And for all her carping, Sheba doesn't seem to have too much trouble knocking back the cheap stuff.”
Zo毛 Heller, What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]

Rex Stout
“...it is our good fortune that the exigencies of birth and training furnish all of us with the opportunities for snobbery.”
Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance

Abhijit Naskar
“Those who are arrogant about their pedigree, about their culture, about their intellect, I have no business with them, give me the humble janitor, give me the illiterate construction worker, give me the dropout waitress - the humble soul will find me in their own heart, but the arrogant will argue their whole life and never understand what I am all about, what humanity is all about - it's about community, it's about listening, it's about letting go of one's self-obsessed identity to become one with humanity.”
Abhijit Naskar, The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

Abhijit Naskar
“Purpose of progress is to lift all humanity, not to pamper the elites' moronity.”
Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

Caitlin Crews
“It can be so difficult to train up the peasants,鈥� she said, pretending to commiserate, her voice heavy with irony. 鈥淭hey find it so hard to project the kind of snobbery that comes so naturally to their betters.”
Caitlin Crews, The Replacement Wife

Lisa Kleypas
“The news that they were to have supper at the home of Lord and Lady Westcliff was received with a variety of reactions from the Hathaways. Poppy and Beatrix were pleased and excited, whereas Win, who was still trying to regain her strength after the journey to Hampshire, was merely resigned. Leo was looking forward to a lengthy repast accompanied by fine wine.
Merripen, on the other hand, flatly refused to go.
鈥淵ou are part of the family,鈥� Amelia told him, watching as he secured loose paneling boards in one of the common rooms. Merripen鈥檚 grip on a carpenter鈥檚 hammer was deft and sure as he expertly sank a handmade nail into the edge of a board. 鈥淣o matter how you may try to deny all connection to the Hathaways鈥攁nd one could hardly blame you for that鈥攖he fact is, you鈥檙e one of us and you should attend.鈥�
Merripen methodically pounded a few more nails into the wall. 鈥淢y presence won鈥檛 be necessary.鈥�
鈥淲ell, of course it won鈥檛 be necessary. But you might enjoy yourself.鈥�
鈥淣o I wouldn鈥檛,鈥� he replied with grim certainty, and continued his hammering.
鈥淲hy must you be so stubborn? If you鈥檙e afraid of being treated badly, you should recall that Lord Westcliff is already acting as host to a Roma, and he seems to have no prejudice鈥斺€�
鈥淚 don鈥檛 like gadjos.鈥�
鈥淢y entire family鈥�your 蹿补尘颈濒测鈥攁谤别 gadjos. Does that mean you don鈥檛 like us?鈥�
Merripen didn鈥檛 reply, only continued to work. Noisily.
Amelia let out a taut sigh. 鈥淢erripen, you鈥檙e a dreadful snob. And if the evening turns out to be terrible, it鈥檚 your obligation to endure it with us.鈥�
Merripen reached for another handful of nails. 鈥淭hat was a good try,鈥� he said. 鈥淏ut I鈥檓 not going.”
Lisa Kleypas, Mine Till Midnight

Deyth Banger
“Hey鈥� Hey鈥� YEAH YOU鈥� "FUCKING sex Snob".”
Deyth Banger, Jokes From A

Sonali Dev
“Well, you did walk away from that beautiful creature in the kitchen without so much as a glance, so I don't know about the genius part," the other woman said, and DJ felt his face warm. "You want to go back in there? I'll introduce you. You can celebrate for real."
Both women broke into giggles. DJ almost smiled; maybe he'd overreacted in there a bit.
"No thank you," the good doctor said in that voice of hers. "But thanks for thinking I'm desperate enough to be set up with the hired help."
DJ stepped away from the door, the warmth on his face turning into an angry burn.
The hired help? He had worked at a Michelin-starred restaurant, for crying out loud. For years. People across Paris knew his name.
Who the bloody hell did this woman think she was? Sometimes he really, truly hated rich people.”
Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors

Abhijit Naskar
“Simplicity is the attire of those with character, sophistication is the attire of the shallow.”
Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

Abhijit Naskar
“King and president, ceo and janitor, all are equal, only behavior merits honor.”
Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Don't be a jerk who's addicted to kindness.”
Wyatt B. Pringle, Jr.

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