Quotes About Sophistication

The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.

It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.

In this sense, an object is of the highest degree of complexity if it can do very difficult and involved things.

Far away in South Kensington Mrs

Black is a girl's best friend.

And Philippe won't speak English. She's sure he can - he's got that European je ne sais quoi that usually means "Oh, I speak six languages. And a little Japanese.

a lady to her fingertips.

The Earl of Mayne's kisses would never be called objectionable. They were so sophisticated and sleek, persuasive and delicate, that Helene didn't mind them - much. It was just that she really wanted to get back to Rees. She had a thought about the score he had given her. "I must go," she said, pulling back. And then added, "alas.

Esme Rawlings is as intelligent as she is dissolute.

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

It was a real party of swells.

Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

He was clad in stylish pale linen and had a squashy packet of Gallic fags jutting from his breast pocket.

One aristocratic leader's club was known for, "an atmosphere of solemn tranquility, in which reading, dozing, and meditation took precedence over conversation.

I don't really know how to do casual clothes.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

You just have to be classy at the end of the day. That doesn't mean you can't go with a midnight blue tux. And if you can find a deep red tux that looks classy and classic, I think you can pull it off.

My clothes are for the international jet set. They are very much for the red carpet.

Phryne Fisher could walk down the red carpet; Essie Davis is something else.

I love Hermes, Lanvin, Brunello Cucinelli, Reed Krakoff, Alice + Olivia and Nanette Lepore.

I try to handle myself with class.

I always wear 'Hannah Marshall', all black.

I love hats. I love vests. I do like to look sharp.