Quotes About Sophistication

No insults, please! said Pugg. For I am not your usual uncouth pirate, but refined and with a Ph.D., and therefore extremely high-strung.

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.

In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.

But the women in this ballroom looked as if they made their appearance a full-time job.

And everything you say sounds better because it's in French. I might just have to speak in a fake French accent for the rest of my life.

Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.

I believe that one can never be an elegant man without a taste for reading.

He sat back, dropped heavily into his gold Platner chair.

I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap laugh because I definitely don't have that sophisticated cool thing down.

That better-educated people were no more immune to National Socialism than the less educated calls into question the widely held belief that tolerance and enlightenment are more likely to be found among people who have a higher education. It is the content of socialization that counts, not the degree of sophistication.

When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play with crossed hands: many of us, when we are older, regard it as a proof of literary skill, maturity, even of sophistication: and many, whether young, not so young, or old, employ it gauchely, haphazardly or, at best, inconsistently.

I never drink... wine.

He was a Parisian,' he said. 'You can never be sure what Parisians believe in – beyond Paris of course.

One Hyde Park squatted next to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel like a stack of office furniture, and with all the elegance and charm of the inside of a photocopier. Albeit a brand new photocopier that doubled as a fax and document scanner.

her hair was piled up under a broad-brimmed

A society sufficiently sophisticated to produce the internal combustion engine has not had the sophistication to develop cheap and efficient public transport?' 'Yes, boss... it's true. There's hardly any buses, the trains are hopelessly underfunded, and hence the entire population is stuck in traffic

I recall Lina as extremely intelligent, with refined European tastes.

Properly cared for, a Savile Row suit can be handed down the generations—like gout.

We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.

I would encourage subtlety. Nabokov's bubble gum or Munro's water over Dumbo's magic feather.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

Bling is passe, and I like my style to reflect just that. Ruthless editing defines true style perfectly.