Quotes About Sophistication

Beautiful?" said Miss Bartlett, puzzled at the word. "Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

All of us, even the sophisticated, yearn for permanence, and to the unsophisticated permanence is the chief excuse for a work of art.

Human beings have one of the poorest senses of smell of all the organisms on Earth, so weak that we have only a tiny vocabulary to express it...We depend on the sophistication of trained dogs to lead us through the olfactory world, tracking individual people, detecting even the slightest trace of explosives and other dangerous chemicals.

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Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

Fashions change, but style is forever.

The man in the Hathaway shirt.

A cat is an example of sophistication minus civilization.

Any man can hold a girl's hand, but only the elite can hold her feet.

Wine is how classy people get wasted.

What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

There's lots of things you pull out lipstick for.

The white pump is the new nude heel.

A leather jacket always makes you look cooler, sometimes more chic, and it elevates your look to make you look like you've purchased something expensive to set yourself apart.

My favourite accessory is a pair of long purple leather gloves.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Sometimes I feel like putting on a blazer with just a T-shirt.

A roll-neck and some flat shoes is about as good as it gets.

I never wore flats: The higher the shoe, the better.

I love wearing black. It's a real base for everything else - hair, make-up, accessories - and it's always flattering.

I usually don't usually go for fluffy, bohemian-chic pieces.

I lead a simple lifestyle but that doesn't mean I am a foolish simpleton!