Quotes About Sophistication

dear me, let us be elegant or die.

which was not exactly comfortable, but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.

Washington instinctively trod the fine line between showiness and austerity, defining a characteristic style of understated elegance.

It makes one's hand look so bourgeoise.

well-to-do, well-groomed, well-bred, and

Religious moderation, insofar as it represents an attempt to hold on to what is still serviceable in orthodox religion, closes the door to more sophisticated approaches to spirituality, ethics, and the building of strong communities. Religious moderates seem to believe that what we need is not radical insight and innovation in these areas but a mere dilution of Iron Age philosophy.

I'm a very feminine man. I like feminine things. I don't go to strip clubs. I don't drink beer. I don't play sports.

Delicacy in woman is strength.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

Dantes examined the various articles shown to him with the same attention that he had bestowed on the curiosities and strange tools exhibited in the shops at Marseilles as the works of the savages in the South Seas from whence they had been brought by the different trading vessels.

In his opinion, a woman who loved books was the best sort.

Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.

For anyone but the landed gentry to refer to a room in their house as 'the library' might seem affected. But there really was no other word for it.

Pon my sivvy, Miss Lambert! Aren't you quite the dandyzette today? Fit to knock a feller oolter-poolter on his beam ends!

You are as wise as you are beautiful, Thorn Bathu.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.

Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.

The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life.

People with money love Gershwin.

He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.