Lost Quote by Toba Beta

“Lord, lord, the snobbery of the English!”

— Virginia Woolf

“For Whom the Snob Trolls”

— June Casagrande

“The town lay beneath their feet, its outskirts in ruin from the negligence of arrogant people who thought it was acceptable to let everything…

— Konstantina P

“At home in Dellacrosse my place in the world of college and Troy and incipient adulthood dissolved and I became an unseemly collection of…

— Lorrie Moore

“And there you sit, gloating over what you have done, as if you were a martyr or a public benefactor -- as complacent and…

— Hope Mirrlees

“reproaches himself for recoiling from the stench of the poor and the sick,”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Then the Skopamish showed up. Their chests heaving, rotting eyes like dull raisins in their skulls. Their eyes found mine like a witching wand…

— Tamara Rose Blodgett

“And the peasants would beat them so cruelly, sometimes even about the nose and eyes, and he felt so sorry, so sorry for them…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“They had wandered in a defeated continent of the vulgar world, where vulgarity had lost its power and its pride, and had to repeat…

— Rebecca West

“I have dealt with the poor, Bathsheba. They need a great deal, but I do not believe they feel any great want for aristocratic…

— Loretta Chase

“It is the persistent delusion of an hoodwinked mankind.”

— John Fante

“They died comfortably in their little bed of understanding, to become useful citizens of the world. I pitied them, and in short order I…

— Henry Miller