Quotes About Sophistication

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life.

Like a book, like a house, the quality of a salon, Mme de Guermantes quite rightly thought, depended essentially on what you excluded.

That fellow Argencourt is well born but ill bred, a worse-than-second-rate diplomat, a loathsome husband and a womanizer, a double-faced stage character. He's one of those men who are incapable of understanding but perfectly capable of destroying the high things in life.

La vera terra dei barbari non è quella che non ha mai conosciuto l'arte, ma quella che, disseminata di capolavori, non sa né apprezzarli né conservarli.

Leisure with dignity.

Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

For Hannibal, it's really about food as art and also, Hannibal's specific brand of art. And I guess I'm a bit of a foodie.

The French always seemed to be so chic. The food was better, the clothes were better, the makeup was better, the hair was better. Everything was better in France.

I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap laugh because I definitely don't have that sophisticated cool thing down.

In the metropolitan haunts of the highly sophisticated, the cocktail is no longer an instrument of friendship but a competitive fashion statement, or one-upmanship.

What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.

Civilization begins with distillation

You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.

A girl shuld be two things classy and fabulous.

Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course

Keep it classy, never trashy, just a lil nasty.

And what defines true elegance?' she asked wryly as they crossed the wide, empty, cobbled streets. 'Dressing with care.' 'Is that all?' 'Far from it. But that is the essence.

Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

Nona needs a very dry martini.