Quotes About Sophistication

Mrs Penn Montague, who spoke six languages, rose every day at four in the afternoon.

You need to put on a pretty dress and have Corinne arrange your hair... and don't forget to bring your mind. --Julie de Bercy

being. I find it's important to keep on your toes with English people because they're fucking devious while they blandly polite you to death.

Gentlemen do so appreciate a nicely trimmed décolletage.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

Sei in gamba perché sei stata a Parigi", pensavo, "o sei stata a Parigi perché sei in gamba?

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

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

She's the ornament of her sex.

He stands precociously possessed of centuries of owlish wisdom. If he ever lay in a cradle, it seems as if he must have lain there in a tail-coat.

No era Esteban hombre galante, hermoso, ni llamativo en sentido alguno; sin embargo, en la manera como aceptó el obsequio y en el modo que tuvo de darlas gracias sin excederse en palabras, había una elegancia que ni en un siglo de aleccionamiento hubiera podido lord Chesterfield enseñar a su propio hijo.

...the height of sophistication is simplicity.

Always be classy. Never be crazy.

Linguistic "technology" in the form of sophisticate grammatical structures is not a prerogative of advanced civilization, but is found even in the languages of the most primitive hunter-gatherers. As the linguist Edward Sapir memorably put it in 1921, when it comes to the complexity of grammatical structures "Plato walks with the Macedonian swineherd, Confucius with the head-hunting savage of Assam".

Oscar sat back and looked at me appraisingly. "I need to think. And to think I must have oysters and champagne.

To make up for all I have forgotten, there is this that I have acquired, and I call it sophistication since it is not quite the same thing as learning. It is the flexible armour of doubt in an age when too many people are certain.

By nine, Mildred was powdered, puffed, perfumed, and patted to that state of semi-transparency that a woman seems to achieve when she is really dressed to go out.

I wouldn't throw her outta bed for eating crackers. She was all class.

second glasses of excellent

My uniform: grey suit, white shirt, grey tie and tie bar, grey cardigan and black wingtips.

Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined.

I learned early that class is universally admired.