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Quotes About Sophistication

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.
~ Cary Grant
Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring.
~ Carmel Snow
Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.
~ Alexander McQueen
Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.
~ Francois Fenelon
I would say that a good shoe is exactly like a good wine. These shoes are going to stay and last for a long time.
~ Christian Louboutin
Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
~ Bennett Cerf
Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.
~ Honore de Balzac
Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste.
~ Kaija Saariaho
Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
~ William Shenstone
France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.
~ Marianne Faithfull
Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste.
~ William Bernbach
Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit.
~ M. F. K. Fisher
I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.
~ Mason Cooley
I'm just not very good at glamour... It doesn't come easily to me.
~ Elize Du Toit
Good taste rejects excessive nicety.
~ Francois Fenelon
Good taste shouldn't have to cost anything extra.
~ Millard Drexler
As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize.
~ Nalini Singh
If only art were as rare as good taste.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney
A la Rothschild, a style I define as many good things used irreverently.
~ Robert Denning
Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.
~ David Rockefeller
The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.
~ Brian Crozier
William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
~ Dick Cavett
It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.
~ Andre Leon Talley