Quotes About Sophistication

I prefer intellect and charm.

Nothing impresses the ladies like a clean, pressed pair of khakis and a large pattern shirt featuring either classic cars, mojitos or men playing golf.

There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.

At 36, I think I should be more mature and handle characters with darker shades.

I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.

It's a real player move to take a girl wine-tasting on a date - she'll like that.

As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.

It's definitely attractive when a man can dress well.

I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.

The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.

'Delicate.' I say it all the time when I eat food; when I'm trying to sound smart. I'm like: 'Oh, it's really delicate.' And my friends - they've caught on. They know what I'm doing. Like, 'why do you keep saying it's delicate?' I'm just trying to sound like a food critic.

People say I am a classic designer. I don't try to be classic, but I do try to be simple and elegant.

French designers are classic, chic, and traditional.

There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life and to communicate that decision to us.

I'm big on what's in good taste.

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

The French have got taste.

People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.

I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people.

Taste is so much more important than fashion.