Quotes About Sophistication

To be truly soigne, a man should have 80 suits.

Only fine cigars are worth smoking and only men who smoke fine cigars are worth kissing.

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

I like when my man is worldly, know the finer things in life, is well traveled, and educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.

Every man should own a navy cashmere jacket with gold buttons, a grey suit, black shoes shoes for the city, brown shoes for elsewhere. Everything else should be simple and really well made.

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man

Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style

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

I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is. We seldom play games--we aren't that sophisticated.

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

I like nice things. I've always had nice things.

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

There's a great niche in the market for what I do, which is effortless style.

When I work a nightclub, I dress up in evening wear. There's a certain elegance to it all and I like that.

I'm going to have some fabulous nights out with champagne.

I'm not some ditzy moron who has no idea how to deal with a diplomat as if they're some exotic animal.