Quotes About Sophistication

We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

The groom is so much better for her than her last boyfriend. He's sophisticated, he brings her flowers and candy, he dines by candlelight. Her last boyfriend thought it was enough to spray her name on a fence.

A gentleman does things no gentleman should do in a way only a gentleman can.

Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance.

Affected simplicity is refined imposture.

Style is the dress of thoughts.

Good taste is the flower of good sense.

If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world.

With that, she turned away. And that was when Butch was able to properly focus on the cropped jacket she had paired with her micro-mini and her sheer black hose and her Louboutins with the red soles.

The beautiful thing about comedy in the U.K. is that it has a clever twist to it, and when you really break it down, the joke isn't filthy at all: it's clever.

The Emilia Wickstead customer is a sophisticated, accomplished woman who expresses her femininity and style through the way she dresses. She appreciates classic with a twist, yet luxurious and high quality clothing that make her feel confident, elegant, and ultimately chic.

To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.

If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story.

Our civilizations have evolved. The solutions we can find for the things that keep us somewhat primitive and base and ugly in our desires can improve and become more sophisticated. Sometimes there's a disconnect between that. My car can drive, but we can't get rid of violence.

My taste tends to skew a little bit towards the more feminine. Monique Lhuillier, Oscar de la Renta. Some of his wedding dresses in particular have been spectacular.

Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.

It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely.

Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.

If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.

A man must...not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully.

Leonardo da Vinci pointed out that "simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

I love the unspoken dress code.

most days, a keen, gray energy (this deadened sort of voltage--something of the faux-sophistication, low-grade restlessness, and, in that she often had the urge to stop walking and curl against a building and sleep there and freeze to death, a passive-aggressive sort of suicidal despair) would move through her (though some afternoons around her, uncertainly, like she might be in the way, and then she'd just feel indistinct and hungry).