William Cowper Quotes

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

I don't enjoy the theatre. I don't go. Don't like going in the back door or the front.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Hello there. I'm out social climbing, but if you leave your name and number and if you're anybody, I'll get back to you.

I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.

So, there's like one luxury you take and since we do that, y'know, you're involved with people in suits; business people all the time. But hey, if I sit down on a bar and they leave, good for me.

I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

Hollywood is just like high school. The popular people only like the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren't nice - or they're nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.

He’s on our side and that’s all that matters. Besides, one needn’t ask him to one’s club.

People talk, talk, but when it's time to fight me, they all wanna hug me.

Fashion Week is a great opportunity to make unimportant people feel like they own the world.

I don't like it when people act extra-familiar and pretend that they are my best friends when they are actually not.

Inverted snobbery is just as dangerous as snobbery itself, you know - that pride in having nothing.

It is absurd to ape our betters.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

I love my friends very much, but I find that it is of no use to go to see them. I hate them commonly when I am near them. They belie themselves and deny me continually.