Quotes About Sophistication

on Fifth Avenue

To be inclusive you must accommodate different levels of sophistication.

Some people need a picture. Any great religion has to be inclusive. And to be inclusive you have to accommodate different levels of sophistication.

Part of coming from old money, apparently, was having old-person habits, those gross, adult needs and desperate palliatives. The Object was still too young for the effects to tell on her. She didn't have eye bags yet or stained fingernails. But the appetite for sophisticated ruin was already there. She smelled like smoke, if you got close. Her stomach was a mess. But her face continued to give off its autumnal display.

When clans of yore went out for a meal in my day, there were no crayons, no sippy cups, no serving little Jennifer's unsauced spaghetti early. Generation X kids conducted themselves like tiny civilized sophisticates, because if we misbehaved, we'd enjoy a spanking for dessert instead of the triple-layer chocolate cake

It wasn't just the money, it was the polish that the money had given her, the cities she'd visited, the plays and the art she'd seen.

Elizabeth Kennedy is so chic. Her gowns have such structure, I feel like a work of art.

I was fortunate enough to meet Sophie Dahl. And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright, which is incredibly sexy.

It's stupid to have a simple-minded view.

I would argue further that Barack Obama's election to the presidency of the United States was essentially an American sophistication, a national exercise in seeing what was not there and a refusal to see what was there - all to escape the stigma not of stupidity but of racism.

If you're going to do something, do it with style!

The difference between style and fashion is quality.

Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.

Style should breathe elegance.

The essence of style is a simple way of saying something complex.

Sonam Kapoor has a great style.

I look up to Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn and old styles. You will never see me in a crop top and hot pants - I'm more into dresses.

You don't want to wear any styles that are too young... I try to still dress glamorously, but not like my daughters.

A stylish person, for me, is one who draws your eye without necessarily being showy; they wear clothes that are beautifully cut, flatter the wearer, and show that they are not impervious to fashion, but not a slave to it either.

Elin Kling is one of the most stylish women I know.

Hublot is a great high quality brand which represents modern, stylish, masculine look.

I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.

As I've gotten older, I've become attracted to things that have substance.

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.