Quotes About Sophistication

he wonders frequently whether he is not without honour and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on the surface of the world like oil on a clean pond, these occasions being varied, of course, with those in which he thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment and somewhat more significant than anyone else he knows.

In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual There!—yet

Remarkable that a person can comprehend so little and yet live in such a complex civilization.

She was dressed in pale green, and a gold ribbon bound back her dark, straight hair like a crown.

Part of the enchantment of Paris in the Twenties was that everything that happened there seemed to have something to do with art.

beautiful girls have throats instead of necks.

He was ashamed of baiting the man, realizing that the absurdity of the story rested in the immaturity of the attitude combined with the sophisticated method of its narration.

He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it. She, on her part, was not impressed by his studied air of blase sophistication.

she laughed with thrilling scorn. 'Sophisticated—God, I'm sophisticated!

She could make fascinating and almost brilliant conversation out of the thinnest air that ever floated through a drawing-room.

Maggie was the only person she knew with genuine class. "Damn it to hell!" she yelled to the cats. "What ever happened to people behaving like ladies and gentlemen?" The cats had no clue, and got up and left the room. As she sat

Don't you have a pair of pearls?

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.

If I'm going to a fancy event, I try to be princess-like.

It's true, I don't like the whole cutoff-shorts-and-T-shirt look, but I think you can look fantastic in casual clothes.

My favorite color is black.

For red-carpet gowns, Christian Siriano is one of my favourites.

I don't like a lot of feathers and frills. I like a clean aesthetic, a Calvin Klein aesthetic.

I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.

I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.

I've been known to create clothes that are very formfitting and feminine.

My mother has always been very feminine, always in high-heeled shoes.

Susanne Bier's work I've always really enjoyed. She's just such a great filmmaker; she's very cool and very sexy - that always helps, too.

As I finished up my time at Duke, I certainly wasn't a 'foodie' but I was learning to enjoy the finer things in the culinary world.