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Quotes About Sophistication

One may be elegant or enthusiastic, but seldom both. If
~ Deanna Raybourn
If he were champagne, full of fizz threatening to escape the bottle, she was a delicate liqueur, subtle and languid.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Always walk with style and finesse.
~ Cindy Ann Peterson
With grace and beauty, feel.
~ A.D. Posey
Personal sophistication never goes out of style.
~ Steven Cuoco
Intelligence is enormously sexy.
~ Frank Langella
Anyone can drink beer, but it takes intelligence to enjoy beer.
~ Stephen Beaumont
Everywhere, I'm looking to reach elegance and intelligence.
~ Philippe Starck
Everything great and intelligent is in the minority
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.
~ Oliver Lodge
Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.
~ Mason Cooley
The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
To be extremely happy but extremely intelligent is a task of being optimistic without being cheesy.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
~ Barbara Walters
The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.
~ Roger L'Estrange
I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
~ Billy Joel
There's nothing sexier in a man than intelligence.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.
~ Massimo Vignelli
Useful Figure The litotes ("didn't appreciate") understates a point ironically. It has fallen out of favor in our hyperbolic times, but makes for a more sophisticated kind of speech.
~ Jay Heinrichs
I was already refusing to have taste. I forbade myself to have it. I knew that the cultivation of it would have not refined me but softened me.
~ Jean Genet
La psique de una mujer Atenea es similar al aspecto no convencional de los vestidos "de buen tono": prácticos, duraderos, de calidad permanente y no influidos por los cambios de la moda.
~ Jean Shinoda Bolen
Tall, with an erect, stately, equestrian bearing, the lady possessed an esoteric beauty. If botanic, she'd be a night-blooming cereus. She was peerless as a lady in a sonnet. Or a willowy figure who'd leapt to life and stepped forth from the pages of Godey's Lady's Book. If Allegra Trout hadn't been a medium, she'd have been a fashion plate, or priestess.
~ Jeanette Lynes
Snooty high heels.
~ Jeanne Birdsall