Quotes About Refinement

Take what you have and just make it the best it could be.

She was not a 'femme de fashion', but she was always elegant, said Laurent; always poised and well dressed.

Be classy, not flashy. - Kailin Gow

Luxury cannot afford to intimidate.

A lot of great inventions are just little improvements on past ideas.

Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.

It's like after uni when you go to do a master's. Italy is like that for defenders.

Designing a game can be like a Japanese garden. It's not what you put in but how much you take away.

I have improved since I joined Liverpool.

Less is only more where more is no good.

Civilisation is soap".

Prac­tice doesn't make per­fect. It makes bet­ter.

Any process can be improved. Defects that are invisible to the knowledgeable may be obvious to newcomers. The simplest solutions are the best. Repeating

It's not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.

Welcome to civilization. I trust you left your club and loincloth at the door.

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

El vino es la cosa más civilizada del mundo.

If we would aim at perfection in any thing, simplicity must not be overlooked.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Toda a nobreza logo começa a refinar os traços de um homem; toda mesquinharia ou sensualidade, a embrutecê-los

since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate.

The infirmity of art was the candour of affection, the grossness of pedigree the refinement of sympathy; the ugliest object in fact as a general thing were the bravest, the tenderest mementoes, and, as such, figured in glass cases apart, worthy doubtless of the home but not worthy of the temple – dedicated to the grimacing, not to the clear-faced gods. She

Nora seemed by instinct to have perceived the fitness of her not speaking of her own affairs, and indeed displayed in the matter a precocious good taste.

That was the refinement of his supreme scruple—