Quotes About Refinement

In a sense, you're also a sculptor fashioning the other party. The words and looks you use are the tools that leave imprints. Nurturing words shape the heart. As you allow the holy spirit to rework and refashion your beliefs about yourself, drawing closer to Christ's image, your skills as a potter or sculptor will be refined.

embroidered with the brightest gold, and all over enriched with pearls. The hands next brought him an elegant dressing-table

The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.

Jony, too, would become a master of the approach, agreeing with Jobs's mantra: 'Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

'Cause mo better makes it mo better.

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

My preferred method is to be able to suggest a concept and get two preliminary sketches or renderings. Then choose one and have two rounds of modifications and a final polish.

connoisseur

Beauty is revealed through the art of revision—whether one is revising a perfume, a dress Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or life itself. —DB

Do you dance, Mr. Darcy? Darcy: Not if I can help it! Sir William: What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing, after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies. Mr. Darcy: Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world; every savage can dance.

She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.

Good company requires only birth, manners and education and, with regard to education, I'm afraid it is not very particular

What did she say? - Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does.

Sus modales eran refinados y su comportamiento ni excesivamente tímido ni afectadamente franco, con lo cual resultaba alegre, bonita y atractiva, sin llamar la atención de cuantos hombres la miraban y (mi parte favorita) sin hacer vehementes demostraciones de contrariedad o de placer cada vez que se presentaba la ocasión de manifestar cualquiera de estos sentimientos. Porque qué lindo es cuando una mujer no es sobreactuada.

The loo-table, however, did not appear.

A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half-deserved. All

pero Ana, que poseía una finura de espíritu y una dulzura de carácter que la habrían colocado en el mejor lugar entre gentes de verdadero seso

do not cough for my own amusement

A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half-deserved.

I love being fancy.

It's fucking hard to be classy