Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
William Makepeace ThackerayHe who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.
William Makepeace ThackerayWhat a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!
William Makepeace ThackerayIt is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
William Makepeace ThackerayHe first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a moment, after which all was over. I shall never forget the comic look of despair he cast upon the other five over-occupied shells. I asked him how he felt. 'Profoundly grateful,' he said, 'as if I had swallowed a small baby.'
William Makepeace Thackeray