Quotes About Sophistication

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.

I don't know what's happened to me. I've got a bit more sophisticated in my old age. I like a bit of jasmine tea. I love it.

I would love to live in Paris and speak French. That would make me feel glamorous!

I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution.

I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.

And what about the idea that hitting a child merely teaches them to hit? First: No. Wrong. Too simple. For starters, "hitting" is a very unsophisticated word to describe the disciplinary act of an effective parent. If "hitting" accurately described the entire range of physical force, then there would be no difference between rain droplets and atom bombs. Magnitude matters—and so does context, if we're not being wilfully blind and naïve about the issue.

Thus, we must become conscious of our desires, and articulate them, and prioritize them, and arrange them into hierarchies. That makes them sophisticated. That makes them work with each other, and with the desires of other people, and with the world. It is in that manner that our desires elevate themselves. It is in that manner that they organize themselves into values and become moral. Our values, our morality—they are indicators of our sophistication.

Our ancestors worked out very sophisticated answers to such questions, but we still don't understand them very well. This is because they are in large part still implicit—manifest primarily in ritual and myth and, as of yet, incompletely articulated.

et, en effet, si le plus bel air du monde devient vulgaire, insupportable, dès que le public le fredonne, dès que les orgues s'en emparent, l'œuvre d'art qui ne demeure pas indifférente aux faux artistes, qui n'est point contestée par les sots, qui ne se contente pas de susciter l'enthousiasme de quelques-uns, devient, elle aussi, par cela même, pour les initiés, polluée, banale, presque repoussante.

Con el cultivo de la inteligencia vienen los gustos costosos

He wore a gleaming top hat. He had a pomaded, uptwirled black moustache. He looked like a first-class funeral.

After my first movie was released, my wife and I went Bouley. A fantastic meal. The whole thing, getting dressed up, acting very adult-y, a lot of fun.

Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of all matters sportif.

Kate Middleton is intelligent, good looking, kind, and fun, and she is remarkably normal.

For as long as I can remember, I've just loved Chanel.

I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.

I occasionally wear Miss Dior perfume. It's quite elegant and feminine. It reminds me of a romantic evening out.

David Beckham is a top man. I love the guy and what he can show in terms of style as well. He's really classy, an icon.

Every woman is after a kind of classy image.

I have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray.

Perhaps, over the years, I have become less immature and more professional.

I adore clothes. More importantly, I admire people who dress well.

I don't need to impress children.