Quotes About Sophistication

My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

You can never go wrong with a nice red lip. I'm not afraid to wear it during the day or basically any time because I wear a lot of black and it's a great backdrop for it.

I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny.

Because he doesn't know he carries within him a supreme elegance, I say it for him.

Elle [Catherine de Mainau] avait, dit-on, inspiré des passions très vives ; elle en avait ressenti ; elle avait eu des peines, qu'elle n'avais pas longtemps portées. Il en était de ses chagrins, je suppose, comme de ses robes de bal, qu'elle ne mettait qu'une fois. Mais elle les gardait toutes ; elle avait, ainsi, des armoires de souvenirs. Vous disiez, mon amie, que la princesse Catherine avait une âme de dentelle. (p. 86-87)

qué te ha servido este pequeño refugio de libros, grabados, discos, todas estas cosas bellas, refinadas, sutiles, inteligentes, coleccionadas con tanto afán creyendo que en este minúsculo espacio de civilización estarías defendido contra la incultura, la frivolidad, la estupidez y el vacío?».

If you're going to rip someone off, it might as well be Audrey Hepburn.

She [Whitley] was the only girl I knew who surveyed everyone like a leather-clad Dior model and rattled off Latin like it was her native language.

because a real lady is never fully dressed without some bling).

De cada vez que o chefe nos punha um novo item à frente eu percebia um quase desafio, como se ele esperasse que não gostássemos do que nos estava a apresentar, como se estivesse prestes a chegar a uma coisa excessiva para os nossos gostos bárbaros e palatos básicos, sem sofisticação.

we have barely scratched the surface of what Mexican food really is. It is not melted cheese over a tortilla chip. It is not simple, or easy. It is not simply 'bro food' at halftime. It is, in fact, old; older even than the great cuisines of Europe and often deeply complex, refined, subtle, and sophisticated.

She glided away towards the lift, which seemed hardly needed, with its earthly and mechanical paraphernalia, to bear her up to the higher levels.

For my own part, I liked Lady Warminster, although at the same time never wholly at ease in her presence. She was immaculately free from any of the traditional blemishes of a mother-in-law; agreeable always; entertaining; even, in her own way, affectionate; but always a little alarming: an elegant, deeply experienced bird – perhaps a bird of prey – ready to sweep down and attack from the frozen mountain peaks upon which she preferred herself to live apart.

Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.

France is the land where dalliance is so passionately understood.

A work of art like this,' he tells one of the journalists, 'demands that the life lived in it be a work of art as well. I am certain that Viktor Landauer and his beautiful wife will do the place justice.

We don't want all this highbrow intellectuality, all this book-learning. That's good enough in its way, but isn't it, after all, just a nice toy for grownups?

Paris, that feminine and flirtatious refuge from reality.

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

How to Be Parisian at the English bookstore on

We'll always have jazz

He feels like fun. He feels like cleverness and irreverence and wit and charm, all packaged up in a long, lean frame.