Quotes About Sophistication

That sent her friends to the dictionary, which gave her additional satisfaction. 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.

He was a dark and stormy knight. A latter-day rake with eyes the color of emeralds worth a queen's ransom. His smile promised voyages to the moon. And heaven alone knew how many females lay littered in his wake. To a rousing burst of Rachmaninoff, he swept into my London flat one January evening and, with the hauteur of his greeting, captured my virgin heart forever and a day. 'Miss Ellie Simons? My car awaits. Shall we splurge on dinner or parking tickets?

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

a chilled bottle of red wine.

I've always loved bright people. But at the same time, I can't stand intellectual snobs. You know, the type of people who look down their noses at anything mainstream, because they're way too smart for that. The type who have to say everything as pretentiously as possible, using the most obscure vocabulary every chance they get.

As Mark Twain supposedly said, a classic is a book that nobody wants to read but everybody wants to have read.

You can be a warrior and be full of grace and class.

We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.

This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not.

The essence of style is how you live your life

Ready-to-wear is what I've wanted to do since the beginning. ... I'm not a girl who spends my life in a ballgown

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

If I could find a real life place to make me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Pink champagne -- that's the kind of life we've both been used to. It might be a little difficult to -- do you like beer?

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

The dividing line between the superstitions of simple uneducated people who live on high mountains, and the beliefs of sophisticated educated people who live at lesser heights, is so faint that it is difficult to determine where the one ends and the other begins.

However, with the advent of the printing press, more people could read the Bible for themselves and a more sophisticated understanding grew in the public while religious control waned, especially in highly developed nations. Today, the favored control mechanism is through the lending of money.

I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can't imagine them properly now.

What kind of kids live in Mulhoney, Wisconsin? Would they like me? Would I like them? Have they ever eaten sushi? That's usually how I determine food sophistication. Maybe a personal ad would get the ball rolling: Insightful, hardworking, 16-year-old girl, emotionally generous and witty, seeks friend/pal/chum to while away meaningful hours. Picky eaters need not reply.

Mrs Cutler, who had taken an immediate fancy to the elegant French lady, now appeared with a tray of strawberries and cream.

Someday I'd be classy if it killed me—probably not today, though.

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The Italian was published in 1797 and is considered the novel where Radcliffe's talents for describing nature and focusing on the sublime reached its peak of sophistication. The importance of the idea of the sublime and the ability of nature to awaken it are crucial to the author's philosophy. The success of Radcliffe's previous works enabled her to receive a payment of eight hundred pounds for her original manuscript, a very sizable sum for a novel at that time.