Quotes About Sophistication

I absolutely love Oscar. So classic. So timeless.

I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.

The French are never serious. They juggle with principles, make fun of difficulties and have been walking the tightrope of virtuosity for ten centuries. A singular nation, you know.

Yet often you talk as though you had read rather much. Your way of speech has what is called 'the literary flavour'.

She was hardly more affable than a cameo.

The epitome of sophistication is utter simplicity.

In my twenties in San Francisco I became a sophisticate and an acting agnostic. It wasn't that I had stopped believing in God; it's just that God didn't seem to be around the neighborhoods I frequented.

The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grownup. Friendly but never gushing, cool but not frigid or distant, distinguished without the awful stiffness.

She was white, wore perfume and smiled openly with the Negro customers, so I knew she was sophisticated. Other people's sophistication tended to make me nervous and I stayed shy of Louise.

When in doubt, I always say, wear black. You can never go wrong with black.

Today Rommel had on a mink bolero jacket. I am not even joking. It was dyed lavender to match the one slung across Grandmère's shoulders.

HRH Olivia Grace

Jill has beauty, sophistication, depth and soul, besides having a remarkable singing voice, how does that compare to Mo'nique?" Wade said angrily.

I'm going to be just as nasty as you are—but I'm going to do it with more style.

She had expressed herself, as women will, in a smug broadside of pastel shades. Nothing clashed because nothing had the strength to clash; everything murmured of safety among the hues; all was refinement.

What a delight to have such a handsome couple before me, Miss Swan, Mr. McNeal. You must both

doeskin trousers, topped off with a merino vest and silk scarf. Propped nearby was a handsome cane

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

The civilized man is distinguished from the savage mainly by prudence, or, to use a slightly wider term, forethought. He is willing to endure present pains for the sake of future pleasures, even if the future pleasures are rather distant.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization .

I do like the idea of women not showing too much, of them being quite reserved in a way, and quite covered.

For 'Shiddat,' I knew I had to look, feel and sound like a seasoned resident of Paris.

Simple things don't interest me.

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.