Quotes About Sophistication

maintainence is elegance. Diana Vreeland. vogue magazine 1984.

Too much good taste can be very boring.

Harriet loved her new persona. As Maxine, she was courageous and accomplished, a woman of sophistication equally at home in Cannes or on the Indian subcontinent. As Maxine she didn't walk, she strode; she did not merely see, but beheld. The very air she breathed was bracing. Here was a conqueror of worlds.

I advocate glamour. Everyday. Every minute" "Glamour above all things.

I advocate glamour. Every day. Every minute.

Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.

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For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.

Elegance is a discipline of life.

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I wish guys could wear tuxedos more often, though I suppose that would take some of the thrill away.

Not doing something crude right off is about as close as a guy like me ever gets to class.

A boutonniere rested beside each plate. Everyone wore tuxedos. There was not a woman in sight.

flexibility of the self was the achievement of a rare maturity

This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.

This is a hell of dull talk... How about some of that champagne?

Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slip-over jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy's. She started all that. She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht, and you missed none of it with that wool jersey.

Here's the beautiful lady with the beer.

A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair was black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek. I

This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.

In Europe then we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well-being and delight. drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary, and I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking either wine or cider or beer.

Complexity is seen as a virtue, a selling-point.

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.