Snobbery Quote by Marcel Proust

Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the…

— Arthur Koestler

He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

He was a vicious hurtful snob, I must confess. I literally despised him in the best kind of a way.

— Sara Bokhari

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

— Marcel Proust

“Snobbery is one of the things one should be most discriminating about”

— Edward St Aubyn

“Unfortunately it is nowadays the fashion to pretend that the glass is penetrable. Of course everyone knows that class-prejudice exists, but at the same…

— George Orwell

The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the…

— Marquis de Sade

“The word “snobbery” came into use for the first time in England during the 1820s. It was said to have derived from the habit…

— Alain de Botton

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too…

— Stephen King

He didn't like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there it was,…

— David Guterson

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he…

— Maya Angelou

The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the…

— Aldous Huxley