Snobs (2004) (edit title/settings)

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• Charles Broughton: Earl Broughton. He is charmed by Edith and marries her. A dull, simple man, but truely in love with his new bride.
• Edith Lavery: A young social climber who marries into the upper-class. When she meets charming and handsome actor, Simon, she begins to wonder if she made the right choice in taking in the exclusive, though somewhat monotonous, circle she married into.
• Lady Uckfield: Add a description of this character.
• Simon Russell
• David
• Caroline: Charles's sister
• Eric Chase: CarolIne's husband
• Kenneth Lavery
• Isabel
• Ade La
• Annette
• Tommy Wainwright
• Arabella
• Henry Cumnor
• Bob
• Peter Broughton: Lord Uckfield's much younger half-brother
• Clarissa
• Mrs Frank
• Jane Cumnor
• Mary
• Stella Lavery
• Lady Broughton
• Diana Bohun
• Feltham
• George
• M. De Montalambert
• White
• Tina

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• “The English, of all classes as it happens, are addicted to exclusivity. Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.”

• “It goes without saying that this consciousness of the need for the materialisation of rank is as unspoken as the Masonic ritual.”

• “I suppose anyone who lives in Hollywood may be forgiven for falling into American ways as, unlike many other people of the globe, Los Angelinos do not appreciate any code but their own.”

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• there is always a kind of pleasurable self-justification in others’ disappointment in the world’s blessings. It is the consolation prize of failure.

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• To an outsider it seems a vital ingredient of many marriages that each partner should support the illusions of the other.

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• one of the basic truths of life is that, as a general rule, the world takes you at your own estimation.

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• She combined a watchmaker’s eye for detail with a madam’s knowledge of the world.

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• How little Americans know when they disparage acquaintanceship in favour of real, true friendship. It is in acquaintanceship, bringing with it as it does delicious dinners, comfortable weekends, gossip shared in picturesque surroundings, but no real intimacy, no responsibility, that the greatest charm of social intercourse lies.

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• a respectable woman’s name only appears in print three times: hatch, match and despatch – that is to say, when she is born, when she marries and when she dies.

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• Not for the last time she was struck by the tyranny of the socially inept. Endless effort is harnessed to a sluggish and boring conversation simply to preserve these dullards from a sense of their inadequacy. The irony being that they are quite impervious to their own shortcomings.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• London
• England
• Paris
• Rome
• Ascot
• Sussex
• Ebury Street
• Mallorca
• Hollywood
• Scotland
• Norfolk

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Julian Fellowes (Author)

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