Quotes About Sophistication

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.

Maharani Gayatri Devi - she was elegance and simplicity personified.

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

She was tall, elegantly dressed and coifed, and looked ten years younger than her fifty-five years.

My practice is to cut the finished product on the diagonal and then wrap it in waxed paper that I still fold the way my Aunt Gin taught me. I'd added two Milano cookies and, being ever so dainty, I included two paper napkins, one to serve as a place mat and one for dabbing my lips.

Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste.

Boredom on social occasions is an inescapable hazard for the over-educated.

He shut his mouth again and assumed a supercilious expression; this he wore for the remainder of the night, as if he regularly attended houses where young ladies were raised from the dead and considered this particular example to have been, upon the whole, a rather dull affair.

You haven't entered a new age at all but one of upscale nihilism, deluxe nihilism.

Beauty knows no time', he said softly, rising, and kissing her hand.

Perhaps grown women are beings of a good deal more complexity than cats

Anyone who could remember the heyday of the cocktail party probably doesn't.

He was a man who always gave the impression of wearing a top hat, even when he was not.

Every now and then she'd see a fine lady in a gorgeous gown that fit her to perfection. Such women didn't have feet, Henry decided. They had rollers - virtually gliding along. And wherever they went, a dozen besotted men followed.

tiny movements that spoke volumes and seemed to envelop them in a fine mist of Pretty.

Audrey Hepburn has influenced me.

Chanel is a brand that is so inspiring.

I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.

I do like designing clothes that are - not exactly lofty but intellectual in their sexiness.

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.

I want to make clothes that are beautiful of course, but also clothes that are interesting and considered and intelligent and not out of place.

Femme people exist, and they are layered and they are complex and they are intelligent.

I love everything about Benedict Cumberbatch because he's so intelligent and talented.