William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.

An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

No social class, intellectual category or art form is immune to the snob virus.

He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.

I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Snobbery just inhibits you.

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.

Maybe I'm an elitist, but I don't feel like I am.

You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.

There's no snobbery in me.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad!

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.

Don't get me wrong - intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche.

...a blue blood, a snob

The general consumption of any commodity by the vulgar lessens, on the contrary, in many minds, the pleasure it would otherwise give. It brings down the individual, in this particular, to a level with the lowest

... more snobbish than their English butlers.

I simply avoid at all cost people I think are not good for me. So it's disgusting when uncouth, uneducated, dirty, downmarket, classless, characterless, perverted, degraded abominations like Rakhi Sawant claim to ever be friends with me.