Cosmopolitan Quotes
54 quotes by 52 authors
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While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely arrived when they…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers.
— Dave Barry
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It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no…
— Ulrich Beck
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I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
— Billy Joel
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In The Earthwise Herbal, Matthew Wood has revived the richness, depth, and dignity of the herbal medicine of the old masters, while at the same…
— Rudolph Ballentine
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If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece…
— O. Henry
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I think cosmopolitan spirituality is the best, where we go beyond "My teacher is better than yours" or "My meditation form is better than yours."…
— Frederick Lenz
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China is doing lots of things right. It's investing in education and R&D, it's opening up, it's more cosmopolitan than it's ever been. I think…
— Amy Chua
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I picked up an issue of Cosmopolitan the other day that had tips for job interviews, because I was like, 'I need to get better…
— Jennifer Lawrence
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Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
— George A. Moore
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New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French,…
— Constance Baker Motley
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Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I…
— Jo Nesbo
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I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
— Salman Rushdie
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Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was…
— William Shatner
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When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she…
— Theodore Dreiser
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The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I am a child of Cosmopolitan culture, have been traumatized by supermodels and too many quizzes and know that neither my personality nor my body…
— Helen Fielding
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Buffett was a billionaire who drove his own car, did his own taxes, and still lived in a home he had bought in 1958 for…
— Roger Lowenstein
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Oh, well. Everyone else has suave, cosmopolitan sheep: why not us? The Millers at Hepple have a ewe that’s been to Kelso three times, and…
— Dorothy Dunnett
Who Wrote These Cosmopolitan Quotes
52 authors contributed a total of 54 Cosmopolitan Quotes, led by these top contributors: