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Updated: May 21, 2025
Shakespeare drew ideal, and Fielding natural men and women; Thackeray draws either gentlemen or snobs, and Dickens either unnatural men or the oddities natural only in the lowest grades of a highly artificial system of society. The first two knew human nature; of the two latter, one knows what is called the world, and the other the streets of London.
But all that's no reason for being a moss-back, a back number, for not having any fun to be glued to the ancestral rock like a lot of old limpets....And it should preserve us from being snobs," she added. "Snobs?" "The 'I will maintain' sort, as Aileen puts it." "Don't quote that dreadful child to me. I haven't an atom of snobbery in my composition.
'What CAN be your antipathy to Baker Street? asks some fair remonstrant, evidently writing from that quarter. 'Being at "Meurice's Hotel," Paris, some time since, some wag hints, 'I saw Lord B. leaning out of the window with his boots in his hand, and bawling out "GARCON, CIREZ-MOI CES BOTTES." Oughtn't he to be brought in among the Snobs? No; far from it.
After a moment, the points of his little moustache went up again in the habitual barometrical smile. Rather a priggish, supercilious smile, she thought, taking a glance at his face. "I say I can understand it, but mother and Vivian will never be able to get it through those tough skulls of theirs. They really don't like Sara. Snobs, both of 'em of the worst kind, too.
Suppose he is an idiot; yet, by the glorious constitution, he is good enough to govern US. Suppose he is an honest, highminded gentleman; so much the better for himself. But he may be an ass, and yet respected; or a ruffian, and yet be exceedingly popular; or a rogue, and yet excuses will be found for him. Snobs will still worship him.
His pistol shot would at least give them something to think about. The music began, and the dancers once more whirled into the centre of the room and the crowd filled the space under the grand arch which led into the hall. Bivens was the centre of an admiring group of sycophants and worshipful snobs. The doctor's heart gave a mad throb of joy. His hour had come.
"Yes; to-morrow morning," said Germaine. Jeanne and Marie slipped on their dust-coats to the accompaniment of chattering and kissing, and went out of the room. As she closed the door on them, Germaine turned to Sonia, and said: "I do hate those two girls! They're such horrible snobs." "Oh, they're good-natured enough," said Sonia. "Good-natured?
Dawn, being a mere girl, perhaps it was Ernest's wealth and position induced them to meet Mrs Martha Clay's overture, for they were thorough snobs, but if they had come prepared to patronise, their intention was killed ere it bore fruit.
It is a glorious, exhilarating scene, with the beautiful wintry landscape stretching away to the cloudy November sky, and the lords and ladies gay, and the hounds, and the frosty-faced, short-tempered old huntsman, the very perfection of his kind; and the poor cockney snobs on their hired screws, and the meek clod-hopping labourers looking on excited and bewildered, happy for a moment at beholding so much happiness in their betters.
Then, more than half of our authors and writers evidently think it a great thing to be "aristocratic," and sneer at progress, democracy, revolution, etc. If some international literary snobs' gallery were establish'd, it is certain that America could contribute at least her full share of the portraits, and some very distinguish'd ones.
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