Quotes About Sophistication

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

I walk over and fill her drink: "you got class, doll, you're not like the others…" she likes that and I like it too because to make a thing true all you've got to do is believe.

Scopare la mente di una donna è vizio da raffinati intenditori, tutti gli altri si accontentano del corpo.

I think I'm living in the wrong century. I would have made a great courtesan. Not a mistress - I could never be kept - but a courtesan with my own rules.

I like to do a little bit of boldness but mixed in with a classic look. You don't have to do something crazy to stand out.

You can't go wrong mixing classic graphics in black and white. It's very Parisienne.

Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.

I know quite a few friends who are models, and they're usually really smart, sharp, world-savvy people.

You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.

Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.

I've never met—have you?—a truly sophisticated man. World-weary and discreet—of course. But never sophisticated.

Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.

Sometimes one gets the idea that life thinks it's still living in Paris in the thirties.

In school you learn that it is the thumb that separates human beings from the lower primates. The thumb is an evolutionary triumph. Because of his thumbs, man can use tools; because he can use tools he can extend his senses, control his environment and increase in sophistication and power. The thumb is the cornerstone of civilization!

Dot wondered how she was to mention Phryne's habit of strewing her boudoir with beautiful naked young men. She could not think of a method of introducing the subject and decided to leave it to Phryne to cope with.

Champagne,' she added to the hovering wine waiter. 'The Widow '23.

Money doesn't buy class.

When Angkorian society began, Paris and London were not much more than elaborate villages. Europe was crawling with barbarians, and here were the Khmer engineering sophisticated irrigation systems and constructing the biggest temple in the world.

But all of this confirmed that as shocking as the revelations about Stuxnet, Duqu, and Flame were, they likely were just the shallow tip of a stockpile of tools and weapons the United States and Israel had built.

She was enveloped from head to foot in a raccoon fur coat, with a jaunty hat of the same, trimmed only with a bright quill feather.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

You look very elegant today, my lord." "I'm wounded. I strive to look elegant every day." - Tyrion & Littlefinger

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

Passer pour un idiot aux yeux d'un imbécile est une volupté de fin gourmet.