Quotes About Sophistication

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I had seen the girl somewhere before. She was a slender girl in a glistening blue gown that exhibited a generous spread of front, back and arms that were worth showing. She had a mass of dark brown hair above an oval face of the color that pink ought to be. Her eyes were wide-set and of a gray shade that wasn't altogether unlike the shadows on polished silver that the poet had compared them to. The Girl With The Silver Eyes

Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds. —Thomas Sowell

Another important dinner party with Jennifer, his soon-to-be wife, and her family and circle of social and business acquaintances. People at that level of sophistication apparently didn't have mere friends they hung with. Everyone served a particular function, the whole being greater than the sum of the parts. Or at least that was the intent, although Jack had his own opinion on the matter

She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof.

Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists. Irony's gone from liberating to enslaving. There's some great essay somewhere that has a line about irony being the song of the prisoner who's come to love his cage.

basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste.

people who feel that fiction should be easy to read, that it's a popular medium

Postmodern irony and cynicism has become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists. Irony's gone from liberating to enslaving.

The prince of darkness is a gentleman!

Educated men are so impressive!

Others have risen before her, and with fewer talents, I'd swear. She has a certain elegance already. In a few years it will be hard to tell her from a woman of breeding." "And she came for nothing? I doubt it. To me she looks a dangerous woman.

Istnieje gatunek zjawisk, których d?entelmen nie mo?e zna? z tej przyczyny, ?e gdyby je poznaÅ', przestaÅ'by by? d?entelmenem.

I'm ordering a bottle of Bordeaux. I know as much about wine as I know about horses or bipolar women.

She knew all the best doctors and Swedish cleaning ladies and where to buy the finest brownies. It was either Greenberg's or William Pohl, "depending on what your chocolate craving is signaling.

Mrs. Vreeland always said, style, not fashion.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

Cea mai primitiv? cultur? este întotdeauna o cultur? adult? ÅŸi, prin însuÅŸi acest lucru, incompatibil? cu manifest?rile infantile care pot fi observate în cea mai înalt? civilizaÅ£ie.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.