Quotes About Sophistication

I am convinced that you don't need to spend a fortune to look like a million.

Women take great care of themselves in France. It's a culture dedicated to making women beautiful and to manners.

France was always a little scary to me. I had the preconception that France was a bit hoity-toity.

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model and the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister, then New York is their cousin. Her hair is dyed autumn or aubergine or Egyptian henna, depending on her mood. Her skin is pale as frost and she wears beautiful Jil Sander suits and Prada pumps on which she walks faster than a speeding taxi (when it is caught in rush hour, that is). Her lips are some unlikely shade of copper or violet, courtesy of her local MAC drag queen makeup consultant.

People want order, this kind or some other. They sit in the prison of their hungers and see that war has become the sport of the rich. That's a dangerous form of sophistication. It's disorderly.

They displayed a sophistication in warfare as good as anything he had ever encountered, and he had been trained by the best fighters in the universe then seasoned in battles where only the superior few survived.

Zijn hersens kenden fijnere nuances dan moderne hersens kunnen bevatten.

I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.

I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it, and Will Smith has been doing it in his own way.

My mother always used to say when picking up a product, 'Would you give this to the Duchess of Windsor?' Well, that's lovely. But the Duchess of Windsor is dead.

Look at the greatest dressers in history - Philadelphia socialite and diplomat Angier Biddle Duke, Sir Anthony Eden, Fred Astaire, the Duke of Windsor, John F. Kennedy, and Gary Cooper - they all sport the well placed pocket adornment.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

Am I an elitist because I like wine?

Wine is smart, sexy, and classy.

A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.

If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.

My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We're too old to drink cheap wine, and we don't.

A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.

Cannes is a little bit like French wine. There are certain years that people prefer over others.

I think we can all agree that Colin Firth falls into the George Clooney category of 'Men Who Age Like Fine Wine.'

The tech rehearsal for Brits is so different. They have little glasses of wine and walk around saying, 'Lovely, darling, lovely.'