Quotes About Cultured

Why are infectious disease doctors the best ones to date? They are the most cultured and sensitive.

I'm not a barbarian.

I don't consider myself a goody-goody, but I like to be perceived as classy.

They may be a little more high brow than we are.

He had had a terribly therapeutic yell at his prisoners and was now feeling quite relaxed and ready for a little callousness. The prisoners sat in Poetry Appreciation chairs—strapped in. Vogons suffered no illusions as to the regard their works were generally held in. Their early attempts at composition had been part of a bludgeoning insistence that they be accepted as a properly evolved and cultured race

I look much more civilized than I actually am.

This intrepid warrior for truth, this cultured, courteous citizen of the world, this devastating, coruscating enemy of lies and cant – well, maybe he has no immortal soul – none of us has.

A fine man, observed my sister, pouring mead for the two of us. Well trained.

... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

I like to think of myself as classy.

I am a classy dame.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

I don't want to do anything in bad taste.

Oh, yes, I'm very refined, Peter.

same battles were repeatedly replayed, marking out the library as a political space. Should readers in the new nineteenth-century public libraries have the books that they desired, or books that would make them better, more cultured people? This raging debate was still echoing deep into the twentieth century:

I fed the phone again and dialed the Chief of Staff's office, deep inside the Pentagon. A woman's voice answered. It was a perfect Washington voice. Not high, not low, cultured, elegant, nearly accentless.

de abrir esta Puerta en el Muro? La respuesta, a todos los efectos prácticos, es Ninguno. En un mundo donde la educación es predominantemente verbal, las personas muy cultas hallan poco menos que imposible dedicar una seria atención a lo que no sea palabras y nociones.

She whipped her head around in his direction. Light dazzled her. All she could make out was a tall figure with broad shoulders. But she heard the voice clearly. A deep voice smooth and rich as the cream she scooped from the new milk on her farm in Yorkshire. That beautiful cultured baritone frightened her more than all Monks and Filey's ribald situations.

Una persona istruita e educata si riconosce subito dal suo modo di fare e di parlare, perciò non c'è bisogno di farne pompa - disse la signora March.

urbane-looking fellow in a sharp gray suit, expensive-looking tie, and dress shoes.

urbane-looking

When a wise man does not understand, he says: I do not understand. The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.

tongue. Sophisticated