Quotes About Cultured

Clever name by the way Basil Pearl, spicy and cultured, sweet jewels with a twist of savory." ~ Ron Shaw, The Ron Shaw Show

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

I guess as far as leftists are concerned, the United States can't qualify as a 'cultured society' simply because we've actually created a society that works.

I'll always remember Vinod Khanna as a thorough gentleman, cultured, polite, who knew how to conduct himself with the ladies.

Single strand of pearls, wild, not cultured. (Worth it, she said: only the wild ones had souls.)

Marius," she said in cultured and perfect Latin, her voice as lovely as her face, "you read my walls and my floor as if they were a book." "Forgive me," I said. "But when a room is so exquisitely decorated, it seems the polite thing to do.

It was a smooth voice, androgynous, and cultured, unexpected.

His voice, softly cultured as ever, showed little of the emotional strain until he dropped his hands to his side and swore.

I don't think I ever met anyone more entirely civilized - T E Lawrence

We should not allow ourselves to be deceived by our outward show of 'civilized' manners and 'cultured' social behavior into believing that self-concern, desirous attachment, aversion, and indifference are steadily losing their hold over us.

bon viveur, wit, raconteur, mimic, linguist—endowed with a vast range of knowledge, both serious and ribald.

I'm a fairly worldly guy.

I like when my man is worldly, knows the finer things in life, is well traveled, educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.

Mrs Poste, who had wished people to live beautiful lives and yet be ladies and gentlemen.

I remember I grew up in Pasadena in a very, kind of, homogeneous, kind of, suburban existence and then I went to college at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. And there were all these, kind of, hipster New York kids who were so-called 'cultured' and had so much, you know, like knew all the references and, like, already had their look down.

I was never an ingenue. I've traveled the globe, I've backpacked through South America, I've done conservation work in Africa. I was never the girl who knew nothing of the world.

Keep up with the march of progress for the time is coming when the cities will be the workshops of the world and abandoned to the workers, while the real cultured, social and intellectual life will be in the city. Laura Ingalls Wilder, Favors The Small Farm Home , Feb. 18, 1911

They say that men who have seen the world, thereby become quite at ease in manner, quite self-possessed in company.

Being a 'Lady' used to be something to which all young women aspired.

Science, it is said, no doubt has ameliorated the material conditions of human life, but is powerless to solve those moral and philosophical questions that interest cultured people so deeply.

Good morning," he said, as though he had answered the door. His cultured voice has a slight metallic rasp beneath it, possibly from disuse. Dr Lecter's eyes are maroon and they reflect the light in pinpoints of red. Sometimes the points of light seem to fly like sparks to his center. His eyes held Starling whole.

All around him, in his house, everything consisted of fragments of beauty. Sometimes modest, sometimes valuable, these fragments combined to form a unique atmosphere of soft luminosity – the only one worthy of a cultured man, he thought. When he was twenty he had worn a ring with an inscription inside: This thing of Beauty is a guilt for ever (Monsieur

There is such a thing as too much couth.

What is a highbrow? He is a man who has found something more interesting than women.