Quotes About Sophistication

I'm always in favor of more glamour. I embarrass my children, I think. I am the lady in feathers in the car pool line.

Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.

What the hell kind of person was capable of sounding erudite while losing blood out of his face by the pint?

most behaviorally sophisticated animals outside the bilaterians are the—terrifying—box jellyfish

In fact, educated people can justify sins more easily than uneducated people can, because they are clever enough to rationalize their sins away.

They were directed to hire certain well-connected advisers and lobbyists in Washington. "You hear about bribery in China," says Herbold. "They have nothing on us. We are just more sophisticated about it.

the startling line in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, where Captain Hook is described: "The man isn't wholly evil; he has a thesaurus in his cabin.

She nodded to the waitress, who placed a solidstem but chilled wine glass before Rachmael; he automatically, obediently, poured himself a trace of the 2002 Buena Vista white, tasted it; kept himself from taking more; he merely nodded in compliment to the wine, tried to make it appear that he was accustomed to such an outrageously, almost divinely penetrating bouquet and flavor. It made absurd everything he had drunk his life long.

by a scent of grown-upness, something disturbing but enticing at the same time: it was the smell of glamour.

capital has become very sophisticated about absorbing people's free time because it doesn't want you to have free time because you might THINK...

She loves the way Vic looks, using the world debonair instead of dapper.

She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not (as with most of the girls Archie had run with in the past) like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.

elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid

Books are always the best accessories to anything.

My adaptations are just as complicated as an original.

It's really been important for me for all these years to stay with my aesthetic - the everyday classic piece that you're not going to get sick of.

I've worked all my life not to be a simpleton.

Usually, I like to play sophisticated-looking characters. I want to do 'Godfather'-like characters. Given my voice and style, such characters will be apt for me.

Something about the way I look screams 'aristocrat, 1940s.' It's so strange, because I'm not.

A force de s'intéresser à tout, le Parisien finit par ne s'intéresser à rien.

Manner is everything," an elegant translation of that judicial axiom: "Form over content.

Simplicity and charm.

It is charming to totter into vogue.

Hablaron de cosas muy triviales, con perfecta discreción de personas maduras.