Quotes About Sophistication

Of course this will never be accepted by fundamentalists, but if Christianity bows to reactionary pressure to return to its authoritarian past it will be consigning itself to the dustbin of history. The modern world is simply too sophisticated to fall for the 'it must be true because it says so in the Bible' routine.

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

I've never met a woman ever, anywhere, bar none, that was more feminine than Dixie Carter.

Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.

The artistic world is one of high nuance.

I had the fortune to evolve at a time when fashion was very important, and women dressed themselves very well. A woman who dressed very well also had a husband who would have beautiful collections of art and decorative objects.

I have an obsession with black, so I love Alexander Wang and Alexander McQueen.

The Parisian way to be chic is to look super sharp for everyday things and then do effortless casual for night occasions.

Since I believe that I have been a devil for many centuries and have risen in rank and been demoted, it could be asked why, with such a history, I still learned a good deal while in Russia. It is because a newly gained sophistication fades once a venture comes to an end. So we develop many new qualities of mind, but soon lose them.

Fashion anticipates ... elegance is a state of mind.

Isn't that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

An intelligent lady, a little too mature for recklessness, a little too young for caution.

Social climbers strive to be aristocrats but their efforts prove them no such thing. Aristocrats do not strive; they have already arrived. Swing is a state of arrival.

Here's what I've learned about the people in this city," Darcy was saying. "They grade their women on a curve. If someone is described as sophisticated, it means once during college she visited Paris, and if someone is described as beautiful, it means she's fifteen pounds overweight instead of forty. And

Atop the brochure McKenna put a maxim, often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, that would become the defining precept of Jobs's design philosophy: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

In all of his products, technology would be married to great design, elegance, human touches and even romance.

Ever since Apple's first brochure proclaimed Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, Jobs had aimed for the simplicity that comes from conquering complexities, not ignoring them. It takes a lot of hard word, he said, to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions.

Von Neumann, by contrast, wore a three-piece suit at almost all times, including on a donkey ride down the Grand Canyon; even as a student he was so well dressed that, upon first meeting him, the mathematician David Hilbert reportedly had but one question: Who is his tailor?45

La sencillez es la máxima sofisticación».