Quotes About Refinement

Beauty is not in complexity but it's in simplicity.

Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

You can always become better.

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.

If at first you don't succeed, tweak it before you toss it.

Creativity means bringing simplicity to the existing.

Problems forges you to be more refined person.

The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

the apartment is an oasis - of civility, kindness, and elegance.

To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.

Cats are not sentimental and they never slobber.

And here is all the devil gets; instead of destroying his faith which he aims at, he is the occasion of the refining of it, and thereby adding to its strength.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.

Dictionary Definition of Delicacy 1. The quality or condition of being delicate, fragile, or sensitive. 2. Discretion, tact.

In France, being exigeant, or discriminating, is considered a positive quality,

I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.

Christ was either the grandest, guiltiest of impostors, by a marvelous and most subtle refinement of wickedness, or He was God manifest in the flesh.

The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.

When you go through difficult times...recognize that God is refining you, knocking off some of your rough edges.

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

God is a refiner, not an arsonist.