Quotes About Sophistication

Great French design is often about unexpected touches.

The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what it means to be civilized, educated, and refined.

When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.

It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.

....basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste.

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

Wagging tongues from prejudiced, sophisticated facade of show-off people can never blemish any honest, genuine, golden heart.

Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.

Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

It's best if you can do things with a sense of humor and finesse.

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

My mother was a very elegant woman. When a flying saucer landed on the lawn, she turned it over to see if it was Wedgwood.

The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

The most important thing about reading is not the level of sophistication of the books on your self. There is no prerequisite reading regimen for being a bookworm.

Sophisticating meat eating doesn't make it any less savage.

Her every movement transfixed him; she was graceful and refined. She'd become a woman. An elegant woman.

I'm telling you, it's fu**ing hard to be classy

Actually, I think I'm more into sleek-looking suits right now." I ran my fingers over the arm of his tuxedo and gave him an appraising stare. "You know, sort of that James Bond cool look.

You can't buy class, but you can buy tolerance for its absence.