Quotes About Sophistication

Something about the genre of period drama feels so quintessentially British.

It's chic to be shy.

A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.

How can one scandalize a maitre d'hotel? Such a man has seen it all before. And if one did succeed in subjecting him to scandal, I don't believe his face would express his condition.

There are a few places on the East Coast, and maybe Los Angeles, where women understand evening gowns. The rest of the country still has far to go.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

A cat is never vulgar.

I'm quite into the French way - simple elegance with just a suggestion of sexiness, nothing vulgar.

Even when low-brow comedy ruled, I ensured my lines were not vulgar.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

Above all, I dislike vulgarity.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

I don't do vulgarity, I prefer to talk about nice things.

There is a fine line between sensuousness and vulgarity. I will not cross that line.

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

For all the sophistication of a world in which most of our waking hours are spent consuming or interacting with media, we have scarcely advanced in our understanding of what attention means.

I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.

I love clothes, and yes, we go out, but it's not like I'm walking around all day in a negligee with fluffy mules.

Halle Berry's style is simple and elegant.

I admit to a bias toward high culture.

I'm a big fan of Paco Rabanne's 1 Million.

Everything matches black, especially black.