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Quotes About Sophistication

There's a big focus in the security industry on incredibly sophisticated attacks and on very sophisticated threat actors.
~ Alex Stamos
The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.
~ Joe Biden
I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.
~ David Zucker
One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.
~ James Brady
Justin Timberlake - I'd like to learn a little more about his suit and tie.
~ Priyanka Chopra
An ascot is never a substitute for a well-tied four-in-hand tie or a slightly disheveled bow tie.
~ Roger Stone
And learn to tie a bow - it's not difficult and there's no excuse for either a clip-on or the hideous Hollywood straight tie.
~ A. A. Gill
People look at you differently if you wear a bow tie, as opposed to a necktie.
~ Dhani Jones
A red tie is contrary to the dignity of the tie and of male dress in general.
~ Joseph Abboud
When I was in 'Philadelphia Story' I got Joe Cotten to pick out my clothes. He loves clothes and he knows them; never gets the wrong tie and shirt combination.
~ Van Heflin
Never, never, never should the pocket square be of the same pattern as your ties. You are not 'Reverend Ike.'
~ Roger Stone
My style is not that big. I wear heels, tight pants, and I wear diamonds.
~ Donatella Versace
You pay a whore to make you feel like a man, you fund a philharmonic to make yourself feel like a refined man.
~ Sam Lipsyte
The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety
~ Samuel Johnson
Definition of a classic something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
~ Samuel Langhorne Clemens
The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.
~ Samuel R. Delany
As smart as I am, I didn't really apply myself in school, because all I could think about was leaving and becoming this fabulous, international, sophisticated person.
~ Sandra Bernhard
wrinkled silk dress and high-heeled shoes making her way past the apartment.
~ Sandra Dallas
Elegance is like manners," he used to say. "You can't be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it's another matter.
~ Sara Gay Forden
Spencer, you do not need to know any more big words. You're already scary enough to anyone under 50.
~ Sara Shepard
All any girl needs, at any time in history, is simple velvet and basic diamonds.
~ Eva Gabor
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
~ Katharine Fullerton Gerould
It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.
~ Lord Chesterfield
The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.
~ Oliver Goldsmith