Quotes About Sophistication

I wear black all the time.

I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I'm already thinking glamour.

Statement earrings and statement necklaces each deserve their own moment. I never wear the two together; it looks overdone.

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

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It was delicate and pretty and always semifashionable because it had never been ultrafashionable.

Language is just as rule-based in its newest slang forms, and just as sophisticated as it ever was in ancient Rome. But the rules, now as then, are written from below, not from above.

none of us are as sophisticated in these matters as you think. You know I always feel, with every new person, as if I am starting anew. These things are instinctive. What you need to learn is to lay aside your inhibitions, to go back to your childhood when you played marbles or whatever with boys and never thought anything of it.

He would always be like that, my grandfather, always searching for that new start, always running away from the familiar. By the time the family arrived in Hawaii, his character would have been fully formed, I think—the generosity and eagerness to please, the awkward mix of sophistication and provincialism, the rawness of emotion that could make him at once tactless and easily bruised.

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

In some ways the soviets simplified who the enemy was", Havel said, "Today autocrats are more sophisticated, they stand for election while slowly undermining institutions that make democracy possible. They champion free markets while engaging with the same corruption cronyism and exploitation that existed in the past.

At the time, few people had or felt the need for private health insurance. Most Americans paid their doctors visit by visit, but the field of medicine was quickly growing more sophisticated, and as more diagnostic tests and surgeries became available, the attendant costs began to rise, tying health more explicitly to wealth. Both the United Kingdom and Germany had addressed similar issues by instituting national health insurance systems, and other European nations would eventually follow suit.

I cannot bear clumsy women who rise from a chair as if they are activated by wires.

A taste for better stuff is cultivated only through experience.

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Her fingers were small in my hand but her grip was firm. I tried to place her age. Late twenties, maybe thirty. She looked young, but her dress and mannerisms were sophisticated.

she found Robinson among the hundreds of New Yorkers who managed to make a great amount of money for doing almost nothing at all but was pretty as god and possessed of a voice like a French horn, so that at crucial parties he could say practically nothing and leave the impression among the more musically eared that profundity of the eternal sort had passed near.

is the case, I think, that it's what is decent, brilliant, and wise in a people that now we most need to know more about, and need to share with each other, not the banal evidence of their miscalculations or the supposed absence in them of the kind of sophistication we imagine ourselves to be in exclusive possession of.

Subtlety is a lost art. - Ada

Rouge et Noir

The key is to assume that your readers are as intelligent and sophisticated as you are, but that they happen not to know something you know.

Complex organs evolve by small steps for the same reason that a watchmaker does not use a sledgehammer and a surgeon does not use a meat cleaver.

Every audience is spread out along a bell curve of sophistication, and inevitably we'll bore a few at the top while baffling a few at the bottom; the only question is how many there will be of each.