"Snobby" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Yanks would be like," remarked one of the Englishmen one day. "Thought you might be snobby on account of being volunteers, but I swear you're a bloody human lot." That, I will explain, is ...
— Flying for France • James R. McConnell
... why you think he's conceited," Mary went on, warming up to the never-ending pleasure of analysis, "but it's because he's really diffident. Lots of people I know who people think are snobby are ...
— Tutors' Lane • Wilmarth Lewis
... and on us will the evil recoil. Be not so earnest in condemning us, for the same sins you lay at our door are fast developing themselves in your would-be fashionable society! Your society is fashionable without being refined. Your aristocracy is a base imitation of our snobby, revelling in the heartless hording of gold, and vaunting of bad English.' John looked down ere he finished, and seemed taking a bird's-eye view of the great Utah territory. The Great Salt Lake I assured him was where the venerable navigator Noah discharged his ballast of salt bags. As ...
— The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth • Timothy Templeton
... questions, Snobby,' returned Mr Chuckster, 'but go and see. Woa-a-a then, will you? If that pony was ...
— The Old Curiosity Shop • Charles Dickens
... than there is any occasion for, papa. I don't want either the Branch or Saratoga this year. Sarah Cooper is at the Branch with her snobby little husband and her extravagant toilettes; I'm not going to be patronized by her. And Jack and his learned lady are at Saratoga. I don't want to make Mrs. Warner jealous, but I'm afraid I couldn't help it. I think you had better keep me out ...
— Winter Evening Tales • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr |
