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1 " I don't cook anything fancy. Sheba's appetite isn't up to much and I've never been one for sauces. We eat nursery food mainly. Beans on toast, Welsh rarebit, fish fingers. Sheba leans against the oven and watches me while I work. At a certain point, she usually asks for wine. I have tried to get her to wait until she's eaten something, but she gets very scratchy when I do that, so these days I tend to give in straightaway and pour her a small glass from the carton in the fridge. You choose your battles. Sheba is a bit of a snob about drink and she keeps whining at me to get a grander sort. 'Something in a bottle, at least', she says. But I continue to buy the cartons. we are on a tight budget these days. And for all her carping, Sheba doesn't seem to have too much trouble knocking back the cheap stuff. "
― Zoë Heller , What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]
2 " Marcia was silent a moment. Then a sort of softer gleam came into her angry eye." Tell me some more about her," she said.Adele clapped her hands." Ah, that's splendid," she said. " You're beginning to feel kinder. What we would do without our Lucia I can't imagine. I don't know what there would be to talk about." " She's ridiculous!" said Marcia relapsing a little." No, you mustn't feel that," said Adele. " You mustn't laugh at her ever. You must just richly enjoy her." " She's a snob!" said Marcia, as if this was a tremendous discovery." So am I: so are you: so are we all," said Adele. " We all run after distinguished people like--like Alf and Marcelle. The difference between you and Lucia is entirely in her favour, for you pretend you're not a snob, and she is perfectly frank and open about it. Besides, what is a duchess like you for except to give pleasure to snobs? That's your work in the world, darling; that's why you were sent here. Don't shirk it, or when you're old you will suffer agonies of remorse. And you're a snob too. You liked having seven--or was it seventy?--Royals at your dance." " Well, tell me some more about Lucia," said Marcia, rather struck by this ingenious presentation of the case." Indeed I will: I long for your conversion to Luciaphilism. Now to-day there are going to be marvellous happenings... "
3 " The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them. "
― John Buchan
4 " I just am a snob when it comes to humor. "
