Quotes About Sophistication

When did you last have fun being dignified?

I am at heart a gentleman.

When you live in a city where you're always in and out of a car or a building, I feel it's... better to treat a heavier, tweedier sport coat almost as you would outerwear.

I'm all about the high heel; I think it's the sexiest accessory ever made, including lingerie.

For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.

I think that a woman that is elegant herself is somebody who can dress herself easily and effortlessly.

Usually, what I do if I want to dress things up is I don't go for high heels, but I go for mid-heels instead.

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

If I must consort with rogues [...] I own I like them to be in the grand manner.

Simplicity was abhorrent to his lordship; he revelled in a net-work of intrigue; he loved to accomplish the impossible.

He was clearly a person of affluence, if not of taste.

He did not want middle-aged men with distinguished records with him: they could be better employed elsewhere, and would, moreover, have bored him. He wanted polished young men of good families, who were of his own world, who knew how to make themselves pleasant in exalted circles, and could amuse his leisure moments with their adventures, and their fun, and their bubbling energy.

Nothing he wore was designed to attract attention, but he made every other man in the room look either a trifle overdressed or a trifle shabby.

I never indulge commonplace thoughts, said Sir Vincent... Not, at all events, in relation to the Grand Sophy.

A man whose raiment attracted attention, had said Mr Brummell, was not a well-dressed man.

He was a very elegant young gentleman, of engaging address, and fashionable appearance. His glossy brown locks were brushed into the Windswept style; the points of his collar reached his cheek- bones; his neckcloth was fearfully and wonderfully tied;

The dinner, which consisted of a broiled fowl with mushrooms, preceded by a dressed lobster and a delicacy of cockscombs served in wine-sauce, and followed by a pupton of pears, in the old style, and a trifle, was excellently cooked, and earned the Viscount's praise.

What makes humans unique is that evolution gave us the most incredible and sophisticated vision system, motor system, and language system, and they all work together.

The pocket square, properly contrived, finishes a man's look. With good tailoring and well chosen neckwear, the look connotes power, taste, refinement, manners. The naked pocket connotes the opposite: working class, tasteless, base, crude, ignorant.

There are certain tuxes you can get away with a black tie, but with others, you'd be dishonoring the workmanship if you didn't wear a full bow tie.

For the longest time, people would say to me that I didn't feel very modern, that I seemed from another time.

The word 'fashion' I don't like because fashion is something that's over in six months. I'd like to find a word that's more timeless.

Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style.

I like things that feel like they're timeless and really well made and tailored... things that make me feel confident when I leave the house.