Quotes About Refinement

After five years of villainy, I promise you, I have the refinement of a cow-cabbage.

Whatever is wrong, I am sure with his sense of the picturesque, Francis will succeed in manifesting a fadeur exquise.

N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature.

Its scheme was black and primrose; its walls were lined with rare editions, and its chairs and Chesterfield sofa suggested the embraces of the houris.

On the morning of the wedding-day, Lord Peter emerged from Bunter's hands a marvel of sleek brilliance. His primrose-coloured hair was so exquisite a work of art that to eclipse it with his glossy hat was like shutting up the sun in a shrine of jet; his spats, light trousers, and exquisitely polished shoes formed a tone-symphony in monochrome.

La historia de todas las civilizaciones importantes de la Galaxia tiende a pasar por tres etapas diferentes y reconocibles, las de Supervivencia, Indagación y Refinamiento, también conocidas por las fases del Cómo, del Por qué y del Dónde. »Por ejemplo, la primera fase se caracteriza por la pregunta: ¿Cómo podemos comer?; la segunda, por la pregunta: ¿Por qué comemos? y la tercera, por la pregunta: ¿Dónde vamos a almorzar?»

It was a show, Corvus knew: underneath the genteel exterior was a man with all the refinement and sensitivity of a ferret.

True to the precepts handed down to her by her mother and grandmother—to wit: that a true lady can neither be shocked nor surprised—Miss Marple merely raised her eyebrows and shook her head,

My Great-aunt Jane always used to say that a true lady was neither shocked nor surprised at anything that might happen," I murmured dreamily. "I endeavour to live up to her precepts.

It's second nature to make the best of yourself.

She sipped once more.

Graceful phrases fell from his lips in polished French.

People who can't make the simple distinction between what tastes good or bad have disqualified themselves from the human race," was one of his pet theories.

There is beauty in the least beautiful of things.

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Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Everything is as it's supposed to be at that moment. But change is the rule, the guiding principle. All is flux. All is refinement, correction, rectification. And that, my love, is the reason for everything. Change. And its potential for improvement." She almost groaned out loud. Another

Although the Singularity has many faces, its most important implication is this: our technology will match and then vastly exceed the refinement and suppleness of what we regard as the best of human traits.

I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections.

I think that in each stage of your career, you need certain things to improve your game and to develop your style of play.

It is important to be chic.

Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

He is the very pineapple of politeness!