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Quotes About Refinement

I work in grand halls and bedchambers with wine and perfume. Not in dark alleyways with cloaks and knives. I don't like knives. I don't even own a knife. And my cloaks are far too expensive to risk bloodying.
~ Jim Butcher
To celebrate our classiness, I propose a 15 minute round of applause, followed by a 15 moment of silence.
~ Unknown
Being classy is a way of life. It's in the way you walk, talk, dine and dress. While I'm not perfect, being classy is something I always aspire to be!
~ Unknown
Being classy isn't a choice. Its a lifestyle.
~ Unknown
Always classy never trashy...trash gets no where but the streets.
~ Unknown
Being Classy is an acquired taste. And once acquired, impossible to do without.
~ Unknown
There are numerous ways to be classy and one of them starts with what you are wearing. A strand of classic white pearls is the perfect starting point...
~ Unknown
Im classy, classy enough to know whats trashy.
~ Unknown
You can pay for school but you can't buy class!
~ Unknown
In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece.
~ Eddie Murphy
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
~ Unknown
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
~ William Shakespeare
We must remain aware that, despite the veneer of civilization and the outward manifestations of culture and refinement, insidious atavistic impulses remain in every country and no nation has a monopoly on atrocity.
~ Unknown
No guile. No artifice. No mischief. All that he had eliminated to achieve his perfection. No striving, no ambivalence, no doubleness—just the style, the natural physical refinement of a star.
~ Philip Roth
If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace.
~ Philippa Gregory
My love, she whispered, so low she sounded to Jacques as if she were speaking from the bottom of an abyss, now we shall belong to each other in a strange country that you do not know. It is the country of madmen but not the country of brutes. I am taking away your vulgar senses and giving you others more refined.
~ Unknown
ameliorated
~ Dean Koontz
Consumed or purified by fire.
~ Dean Koontz
Fatigue and distress tended merely to sharpen Grey's fine-cut features
~ Diana Gabaldon
are like sherry in crystal, and
~ Diana Gabaldon
You have to constantly work on your script if it needs it. You don't accept, 'Oh, I did a draft and...' No, it's your responsibility to work on the script as much as possible and make it better and better.
~ Whit Stillman
The goal is to try to just get better each day.
~ Buster Posey
Just try to add more things to my game each year.
~ Calvin Johnson
Each year is a year for you to get better, so that's what I'm trying to do.
~ Jason Pierre-Paul