Quotes About Sophistication

New Money wore dinner suits, which it called tuxedos, and smoked big cigars from which it removed the band before lighting up—an unthinkable solecism, for

By the seventh century, Christianity probably was far stronger and more sophisticated in North Africa and Asia than in Europe.

Este imposibil s? aperi conving?tor cultura înalt? în faÅ£a unei persoane total lipsite de cultur?.

Their strategy was to make clients feel accepted into a private club, as if a Morgan account were a membership card to the aristocracy.

La semplicità è la sofisticazione finale.

A simplicidade é o último grau de sofisticação

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication

There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see. Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity

I invited myself. Thought this table needed some class.

Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala, I say with an affected bow.

France] may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.

Criminal enterprises are notoriously snobbish, and our local gangs aren't sophisticated enough for Russian interest.

Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.

This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.

Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top.

Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.

An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.

She was accustomed in London to associate only with first-rate people who liked first-rate things, and she knew that there were very, very few first-rate things in the world, and that those were mostly French.

Champagne has the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.

She was accustomed in London to associate only with first-rate people who liked first-rate things, and she knew that there were very, very few first-rate things in the world, and that those were mostly French. "Well

Tutti lo consideravano intelligentissimo, cosa che nella sensibilità comune equivaleva a considerarlo anemico, o daltonico: una malattia inoffensiva ed elegante.

This tea is for people who really appreciate tea. Ordinary tea is for anyone.

To dispatch one's friends to a dictionary from time to time is one of the more sophisticated pleasures of life, but it is one that must be indulged in sparingly: to do it too often may result in accusations of having swallowed one's own dictionary, which is not a compliment whichever way one looks at it.

La bella figura...it's at the heart of Italian life...it's about doing things beautifully.