Quotes About Refinement

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.

Refinement is the sign of deficient vitality, in art, in love, and in everything.

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

Beautiful?" said Miss Bartlett, puzzled at the word. "Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of eye and mind for symmetry, harmony, and order.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

The whole of science is merely a refinement of everyday thinking.

The whole of science is merely a refinement of everyday thinking. —Albert Einstein

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation.

A cat is an example of sophistication minus civilization.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

Wine is how classy people get wasted.

Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary.

Fragrance should be discovered, not announced.

Mr. Evans beamed. "Could I get you a drink?" he said. The words were ordinary; the phrase was one that Maureen had heard and often welcomed at endless dozens of parties. But Mr. Evans managed to invest it with such a delightful Edwardian gallantry that you almost thought he had said, "May I bring an ice to you in the conservatory?

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.