Quotes About Refinement

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

She's the ornament of her sex.

The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

...the height of sophistication is simplicity.

You know it really doesn't matter about clothes if we look clean and neat and behave well. I think we've been placing too high a value on looks anyway. Of course looks do count a little, but they are, after all, only a trifle beside real worth. And, if we can't impress that girl with our refinement by our actions, why, we can put on all the clothes in the universe, and we won't be able to do it any better.

Always be classy. Never be crazy.

I wouldn't throw her outta bed for eating crackers. She was all class.

profanity-laden tirade that took some of the polish off her sophisticated veneer

Like Oscar Wilde said, "I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best," he thought.

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Oscar Wilde said, "I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best," he thought.

In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong.

I learned early that class is universally admired.

Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as faith, courage, empathy and refinement in relationships and in cultures.

Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.

Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir.

All those other girls are cake...I'm Crème brûlée...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above.

There is no color to known to beauty except elegance.

Style is a sacred fashion.

It's important that when you do standup, you do small places like coffee shops and also big places like colleges. It helps you find the little nuances in your set that don't work, and you can shave off the excess.

Face-to-face customer feedback refines or validates every component of the startup's business model, not just the product itself.

I prefer single statement pieces like solitaire earrings and a elegant ring.

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.