Quotes About Sophistication

Ants brilliantly self-organized to evolve remarkably robust and hugely successful and sophisticated physical and social structures, but it took them millions of years to do so. Furthermore, they accomplished this more than 50 million years ago and have barely evolved beyond it since.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from doubletalk.

It was never enough for him merely to establish a result; he had to do it with elegance and grace.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

Behavior was better when cinemas were opulent.

Success will require the studied lack of sophistication of a Ronald Reagan and the casual dishonesty of an FDR. The president must appear to be not very bright yet be able to lie convincingly.

Being a blueblood isn't just knowing the rules. It's knowing the precisely correct thing to do in every situation, then doing it with unshakable entitlement.

Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusing. In fact, I think I sometimes detect conspiratorial plottings among my friends to protect me against my own lack of sophistication. I don't mind. I suspect that I am never quite as unsophisticated as they think I am, but I don't mind.

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He had calling cards with his family crest on them and respected all the known rules of urbanity as well as some of his own invention, such as eating artichokes with tongs, which provoked general stupefaction.

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

There is such a thing as too much couth.

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

A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.

The prince of darkness is a gentleman.

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

Fashions fade - style is eternal.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

Turning the heat up on the red carpet while still looking like a lady isn't as easy as it sounds. Too much va-va-voom, and a girl can look like she just stepped out of 'Jersey Shore.' Too little, and she'll look like a sister wife.

Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.