Quotes About Sophistication

I don't think because you have money you have taste... Education and money - this is quite rare. No?

Let's just say I have expensive taste.

This is Seattle. We're supposed to have superior taste.

Advertising should always be in good taste without a question.

TLC's always been sexy but always tasteful.

As you get older, your tastes get simpler. I like a sleek evening dress with a pair of big earrings. That's all.

My tastes are Viennese.

If me and my friends are feeling decadent, we go for afternoon tea.

No one teaches you how to be graceful.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. —Leonardo da Vinci

Why don't you slip out of those wet clothes and into a dry Martini?

After all, you might argue, we are now so sophisticated and technologically advanced, so progressive and enlightened; we have moved well beyond our primitive roots; we are in the process of rewriting our nature. But the truth is in fact the opposite—we have never been more in the thrall of human nature and its destructive potential than now. And by ignoring this fact, we are playing with fire.

Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything—from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.

Loss of education. Too often, people count their house and savings and retirement plans as all they have in their asset column. Because they have no money to invest, they simply don't invest. This costs them investment experience. Most never become what the investment world calls "a sophisticated investor." And the best investments are usually first sold to sophisticated investors, who then turn around and sell them to the people playing it safe.

Just as experienced surfers learn not to fight the waves or currents, sophisticated investors go with the trends, changing strategies when appropriate, or standing on the sideline if things are too choppy.

Today, we need greater financial intelligence to simply survive. The idea that "it takes money to make money" is the thinking of financially unsophisticated people. It does not mean that they're not intelligent. They have simply not learned the science of money making money.

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

shed his Harvard persona in his late twenties and moved to South Carolina, where he'd immediately made a fortune in real estate. Judging from everything Emily had told me, he'd morphed into a first-class Southern boy, a real straw-chewin', tobacco-spittin' hick, which of course appalled Miranda, the epitome of class and sophistication. B

In the Sitting Room, the walls were given over to framed Ape and Spy caricatures from the old Vanity Fair

It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace.

Quality is better than quantity.

The Lady with the Alligator Purse

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.