Quotes About Sophistication

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.

Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.

I'm by no means an opera buff.

I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I'm not.

You can't get down and dirty at the opera.

With an evening coat and a white tie, as you told me once, anybody, even a stock-broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.

Details are always vulgar

If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

Miss Prim says that all good looks are a snare.' 'They are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in.' 'Oh, I don't think I would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

The St. James's

Hello, I am Oscar Wilde

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime".

the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.

He had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.

though the conversation always touched an exceptionally high level of brilliance, there was apt to be a good deal of sugar thrown about.

Girls do go for the finely-chiselled. And apart from his looks, he's and artist, and there's something about artists that seems to act on the other sex like catnip on cats.

Right ho, Jeeves.

The ability to accessorize is what elevates us from lower-life forms, I said in my lecture voice, choosing a pair of diamond-studded drops for my ear. Like men.

Jeeves, of course, is a gentleman's gentlemen, not a butler, but if the call comes, he can buttle with the best of them.

When it comes to the smooth stuff, old girl, you're the oyster's eye-tooth!