Quotes About Sophistication

I love the finer things.

Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.

Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for specific tunes. In a lot of cases, we gravitated toward jazz players who had more sophisticated harmonic concepts.

I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do a process together. I want to do the best for him. I need his respect and his patience. I want to work with a sophisticated person who's interested in a good building and not in my name.

My goal is to elevate the whole casual end of the guy's wardrobe.

Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

That's why I loved Dinah Washington. She sung jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. She had the control and sophistication of jazz in her note selection and how to attack a song or certain lines, but then attacked it with a painful force of blues behind it. That's why I admired her so much, because of that versatility.

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes.

'The Good Wife' was so unbelievably luxurious to step into.

Listen, even if you go wild, I like class. Everybody in show business never should forget that there is a line, and that you should have class.

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.

A pocket square must always - always - be white and a bit wild. If it is too prepared, it is tacky.

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.

Brilliantine-assaulted hair

Like wine, coffee offers a path to sophistication.

Damned technocrats. Nothing but horse doctors with a more expensive set of toys.

Don't mistake a lack of sophistication for sweetness.

Let us be elegant or die

but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.

It is one of her aristocratic tastes, and quite proper, for a real lady is always known by neat boots, gloves, and handkerchief.