Quotes About Sophistication

Fettucine Alfredo is just Macaroni and cheese for adults

However, now she was a schoolgirl no longer. She had discovered how to manage her hair, had been to one or two parties and a night club, and laid on lipstick with the idea that each layer was a layer of sophistication.

a world remade in the image of Walt Disney, and driven by an increasingly sophisticated communications technology, is the total breakdown of civilization.20

I could've totally cut out your heart before you knew what was happening." "What stopped you?" "I thought Montgomery might've been pissed off at all the blood on the sheets." "Montgomery would never be something as uncouth as pissed off. Annoyed in an icily genteel manner, perhaps.

Smart women were his catnip.

As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize.

Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent.

Madame de Pompadour excelled at an art which the majority of human beings thoroughly despise because it is unprofitable and ephemeral: the art of living.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.

businessmen learned quickly that working-class tourists had money to spend, too. What they lacked in sophistication they made up for in numbers.

Sempre gostei de grã-fina. A grã-fina é a única mulher limpa. A grã-fina nem transpira. peixoto

There was a world of complication in that one word.

It pleases me to wear silk couture and pearls. I like the way it feels on my skin, the way it fits.

Unusual to find a caterer who knows Caesar's commentary." "You really know how to endear yourself to a girl.

Vulgarity consists, basically, in being on first name terms with Plato or Goethe.

You don't have to be naked to be sexy.

Increasingly, people seem to interpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling – the incomprehensible should cause suspicion, not admiration. Possibly this results from the mistaken belief that using a mysterious device confers [extra] power on the user.

how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners...

Beauty without grace is a hook without a bait.

Too clever is dumb.

Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.