Snobs Quotes

“Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“The longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether or not one liked them initially.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“Real unhappiness is ugly and wounding and scarring to the soul.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“Edith stared at the ceiling, contemplating the oddness of life. Here she was with this man, whom she hardly knew when she really thought about it, asleep, naked, beside her. She pondered that central truth, which must have struck many brides from Marie Antoinette to Wallis Simpson, that whatever the political, social or financial advantages of a great marriage, there comes a moment when everyone leaves the room and you are left alone with a stranger who has the legal right to copulate with you. She was not at all sure that she had fully negotiated this simple fact until then.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“To an outsider it seems a vital ingredient of many marriages that each partner should support the illusions of the other.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“Realization of a dream brings resentment in its wake.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“The fact that someone is not particularly intelligent is no guide in these things. People may be stupid and extremely complicated just as they can be clever and incapable of deep feeling.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“It is a truism but it is still true that the longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether or not one liked them initially.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“-prietenii, chiar animați de cele mai bune intenții, pot ucide multe iubiri inca din fașă-”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“When grief is becoming, it is also suspect.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“In the States, the Abdication story, for example, is portrayed as The World Well Lost For Love while the English, of a certain type anyway, see it only as childish, irresponsible and absurd.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“Cu toata că majoritatea oamenilor s-au simțit cît se poate de nefericiți in perioada cît au fost îndrăgostiți, aceasta este starea după care ființa umană tînjește mai presus de toate.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“Great grief can be worn charmingly by a beauty and I have seen a lot of gracious dignity at funerals in my time but is my experience that when grief is becoming it is also suspect. Real unhappiness is ugly and wounding and scarring to the soul.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“Their pretensions are naked and vulnerable and for that reason, to me at least, rather charming.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“She preferred to be at the receiving end of envy than pity.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“It was possible for couples to not discover that they are in profound disagreement over the very fundamentals of life until ten or twenty years of marriage.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“I have always been uncomfortable with the jejune pseudo-informality implicit in the upper-class passion for nicknames. Everyone is ‘Toffee’ or ‘Bobo’ or ‘Snook’. They themselves think the names imply a kind of playfulness, an eternal childhood, fragrant with memories of Nanny and pyjamas warming by the nursery fire, but they are really a simple reaffirmation of insularity, a reminder of shared history that excludes more recent arrivals, yet another way of publicly displaying their intimacy with each other.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“How many of us, having cried bitter, rancid tears over a failed love, are actually disappointed when we discover, seeing the adored one again, that all trace of their power over us is gone? How often one has resisted the freedom-giving knowledge that they have actually begun to irritate us as that seems like the worst kind of disloyalty to our own dreams. No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“The couple that never talk to each other never discover how little they have in common.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“Physical beauty is a subject that many skirt around and almost everyone attempts to down-play thereby demonstrating some sound moral stance, but it remains one of the glories of human existence. Of course, there are many people who are attractive without being beautiful just as there are beauties who bore, and the danger of beauty in the very young is that it can make the business of life seem deceptively easy. All this I am fully aware of. I know too, however, that of the four great gifts that the fairies may or may not bring to the christening – Brains, Birth, Beauty and Money – it is Beauty that makes locked doors spring open at a touch. Whether it is for a job interview, a place at a dining table, a brilliant promotion or a lift on the motorway, everyone, regardless of their sex or their sexual proclivity, would always rather deal with a good-looking face. And no one is more aware of this than the Beauties themselves. They have a power they simultaneously respect and take for granted. Despite the moralists who tut about its transience, it is generally a power that is never completely lost. One can usually trace in the wrinkled lines of a nonagenarian, stooped and leaning on a stick, the style and confidence that turned heads in a ballroom in 1929.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“As a rule the Holloywood pattern for English actors is simple. They are delighted to go, they are told there is a lot of work for them if they stick it out, they tell everyone how fabulous it is, they spend all their money - and then they come home. It seems to take from two to six years.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“She had that uniquely English talent of demonstrating, through her scrupulously polite manner, just how awful she thought the company. She could leave a roomful crushed and rejected and yet congratulate herself on behaving perfectly. It is of course of all forms of rudeness the most offensive as it leaves no room for rebuttal.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“[U]ns verband jene angenehme, anspruchslose Art von Freundschaft, die ausschließlich auf langer Dauer beruht. Wir hatten wenig gemeinsam, kannten aber sonst kaum jemanden, der sich an uns als Neunjährige beim Ponyreiten erinnerte; so hatten unsere gelegentlichen Begegnungen immer etwas Behagliches.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“Sie besaß dieses einzigartige englische Talent, durch übertriebene Höflichkeit zu zeigen, wie fürchterlich sie ihr Gegenüber fand. Sie konnte einer versammelten Gesellschaft das niederschmetternde Gefühl vermitteln, für nicht würdig befunden zu sein, und sich dennoch zu einem tadellosen Benehmen gratulieren. Dies ist natürlich die hinterhältigste Form von Gemeinheit, da sie jede Gegenwehr ausschließt. Selbst auf dem Höhepunkt der Feindseligkeiten wird das Podest moralischer Unantastbarkeit nie verlassen.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“Great grief can be worn charmingly by a beauty and I have seen a lot of gracious dignity at funerals in my time but it is my experience that when grief is becoming it is also suspect. Real unhappiness is ugly and wounding and scarring to the soul. I blush to recall that I was surprised that Charles – nice, bluff Charles with his shooting and his hedgerows and his dogs – had a heart that could be broken. But he had and I was there to witness its breaking.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“Physical beauty is a subject that many skirt around and almost everyone attempts to down-play thereby demonstrating some sound moral stance, but it remains one of the glories of human existence. Of course, there are many people who are attractive without being beautiful just as there are beauties who bore, and the danger of beauty in the very young is that it can make the business of life seem deceptively easy.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“Sigur, unul dintre adevărurile de bază ale vieții este că, in general, lumea te acceptă după cum te evaluezi singur.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“That is a good deal happier than a large proportion of my address book.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs