Quotes About Sophistication

'Complicated' is good, in my opinion.

The martini is the supreme American gift to world culture.

English attitudes saw Islam as a shallow kind of sophistication; Hinduism a profound form of primitivism.

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.

I don't think Bond does too much; he's just suave and sexy. He rolls out with his martini and fancy cars. Wow, it sounds like my life already.

I think the evening wear criteria is that they want to walk into the room and get that 'wow' factor.

Every time I tell someone that I'm doing 'Spooks,' they're like, 'Wow!' That's a guaranteed reaction. It's such a high-end show, it's so sexy and slick and smooth.

You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes.

It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.

That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.

It's jewelry for men, so definitely it's very nice to have a good watch on your wrist.

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments, said Frex.

Quanto mais civilizados nos tornamos, mais horrendas são as nossas diversões.

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments," said Frex.

I started thinking more about music. I thought I'd accepted the fact that, as part of Being Gretchen, I didn't really like music, but in fact, the truth was slightly different: I thought I didn't like music, but in fact, I didn't approve of my own taste--I wished I liked sophisticated music, like jazz or classical or esoteric rock. Instead, my taste ran mostly to what might play on a lite FM station. Oh, well. Be Gretchen.

Frédéric, habitué aux grimaces des bourgeoises provinciales, n'avait vu chez aucune femme une pareille aisance de manières, cette simplicité, qui est un raffinement, et où les naïfs

no imagination, no sallies, nothing that makes the society-man.

Charming, charming,' the lawyer said at intervals.

The most lovely moving picture actor, considered in the light of genuine aesthetic values, is no more than a piece of vulgarity; his like is to be found, not in the Uffizi gallery or among the harmonies of Brahms, but among the plush sofas, rococo clocks and hand-painted oil-paintings of a third-rate auction room.

Daisy wore a clingy black dress with a neckline so deep it could tutor philosophy.

Judith was a beautiful woman. She was petite with big round eyes and dainty, doll-like features. She looked younger than her years. There had been some work done—Botox, maybe a little something around the eyes—but it was tasteful, and most of her youthful appearance was due either to genetics or her daily yoga routine. Her figure still drew second glances. Men were drawn to her big-time—looks, brains, money—but if she dated, Maya didn't know about it. "I

who had easy answers, be they on the right or the left, were always wrong. The world is complex. It is never one-size-fits-all.

I'm driving home to change, Win said. Then I'm dining at Merion. Mainliners never ate; they dined. Care to join me?