Quotes About Refinement

You don't have to make every module perfect before you check it in. You simply have to make it a little bit better than when you checked it out.

Money doesn't buy class.

Refinement. A man who is decorous and mannerly. One who is– (Nora) Boring. (Cat) How so? (Nora) Have you ever been around such men? They're mewling. Fussing over their hair, their cloths. They're more woman than man. (Cat)

la compitezza raffinata del «dressage» ne dissolveva il palese tormento in una sorta di fatuità fantastica, tra il pastorale e l'imbecille. Il

We then went to the swimming pool which is beyond the reception room. This was the finest pool I had ever seen, with red-and-green submerged lights, and a diving board in polished duraluminium.

La noblesse vient de l'émotion contenue

Chaucer, I confess, is a rough diamond; and must be polished e'er he shines.

A gentleman does things no gentleman should do in a way only a gentleman can.

There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.

To try to be better is to be better.

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

Better is the enemy of the good.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance.

Taste is the feminine of genius.

Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.

Good taste is the flower of good sense.

Trifles make perfection - and perfection is no trifle.

There is but one art, to omit.

Flaubert had infinite correction to perform.

The refinement of an individual or a society is measured by the yardstick of how well greed and desires are controlled.

If I see a phrase that strikes me as ugly, I'll delete it. Or, if I find a way to say something a bit more freshly than it was expressed originally, I'll do it. Ultimately, you want to try to leave behind the best possible paragraph or sentence.

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

A man must...not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully.