Quotes About Sophistication

deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

Love is the ultimate style.

Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.

Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

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

I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.

It's certain that fine women eatA crazy salad with their meat.

Cats are not sentimental and they never slobber.

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

no smell of piss or green beans. That was how you could tell for sure it was an upscale old-age joint. It smelled instead like a summer meadow, it smelled of daisies, it smelled like a preview of coming attractions.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

Techno music is the foundational influence upon the modern tunes that saturate the cultural airwaves with unabashed monotony giving today's tunes all of the lyrical sophistication of a kindergarten merry-go-round rhyme combined with the musical nuances of an electric can opener.

He was not what gentlemen usually thought a gentleman was.

This country has no indigenous art that requires this level of skill. When classical music is transposed to our society we understand its purpose to be playing in a band or orchestra and we equate its complexity and sophistication to jazz. This is at best naive, at worst a perversion. A

Godzilla lovers to this day still wonder precisely what attracts them. Part of the appeal is the surprising sophistication in what seems at first glance to be simple-minded Saturday matinee fare. In the wreckage left in the wake of this awesome beast lies the tattered remains of human hubris, a moral lesson left smoldering in the ruins. As series producer Tomoyuki Tanaka put it, "As long as the arrogance of human beings exists, Godzilla will survive.

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

J. D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield is a literary descendant of Huck Finn: more educated and sophisticated, the son of affluent New Yorkers, but like Huck a youthful runaway from a world of adult hypocrisy, venality and, to use one of his own favourite words, phoniness. What particularly appals Holden is the eagerness of his peers to adopt that corrupt grownup behaviour.

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

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.

She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!