Quotes About Sophistication

There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.

she offered herself to him with that quiet expression which is peculiar to a good-natured courtesan.

En lugar de reconocer la sofisticación intelectual de Emily, Charlotte la presentaba como una sencilla chica de campo, nada «culta», que había acabado escribiendo un libro desconcertante, más por ingenua que por versada.

A horror so refined

Under the thousand crystal candelabras I danced with ten elderly gentlemen who had nothing to say but did not let that stop them. I answered only, Indeed and Oh yes and Do you think so?

youre beautiful', he said without grandiloquence. 'that's the least of it', she replied politely.

I miss my suits...

It can play solitaire and minesweeper," replied Artemis innocently.

I know what dissipate means, Arty. I'm not three, for heaven's sake.

Hello there, young man. Would you like to see the children's menu?" A vein pulsed in Artemis's temple. "No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children's menu. I have no doubt that the children's menu itself tastes better than the meals on it.

Immer zwei Schritte voraus, unser Master Artemis. Die Leute sagten, er sei ganz aus dem alten Holz geschnitzt. Doch sie irrten sich. Master Artemis war aus nagelneuem Holz, von einer Sorte, die noch keiner gesehen hatte.

Arcane House she was highly unlikely to

Oh my boy, only men in bow ties and Andrew Christian underwear can bring me my mimosas.

Dans le salon de madame Clarence, on parlait de l'amour ; et l'on en disait des choses délicieuses.

Okay, listen, I don't know what dumb lines you are used to giving girls so they fall all over you but I just want you to know that I wasn't born yesterday so I am gonna go now and leave you to whatever dumb idiot girl is gonna buy that line.

Buffon argued that the New World was just that: new. This adjective brought with it positive connotations of potential, excitement, energy, but it also implied lack of maturity, development, and sophistication, a view that Europeans have shared about America to this very day. Rather

Neanderthals, often caricatured as brutes, but actually sophisticated hunter-gatherers, with diverse tools and brains larger than our own.

I think that in a weird way, as technology gets more sophisticated, people have become less aware of it. It's become part of our day to day life. We're seeing large-scale projection mapping, like on buildings. There's video everywhere. It's much less noticeable that we're actually looking at technology.

If I welcomed people into my lovely home every week in the pages of a magazine, they'd soon see how incredibly dull it is. It's important to maintain a bit of mystique.

To us, something can be uplifting even if the tone of it is not cheerful - it can be uplifting because it's just so well done.

I love things like the Criterion Collection DVDs. I think those are really well done. I like how far you can push the deluxe-ness of things like that.

Even as exuberant as my style is and as over the top as I may be, I can appreciate a classic when it's really well done.

There's no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast - L.A. particularly - and the East Coast have no clue at all about what's happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated.

Given its Internet sophistication and the attraction the group has with vast numbers of potential recruits from among disaffected populations around the globe, ISIS has the realistic potential to eventually swell its ranks of jihadists waging a 'holy war' to hundreds of thousands in both the western and eastern hemispheres.