Quotes About Refinement

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.

It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class.

Money does not make you look expensive, it's taste.

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

You may be good, but who cannot be better?

If you go through the hot furnace of hardships, you will be refined like gold.

I've matured as a person and so has the music... It's gotten more sophisticated and interesting I think.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.

The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of.

Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.

Only the brave know how to forgive it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort, and refinement.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

Your most important task is not to achieve a goal but it is to improve yourself every day.