Quotes About Refined

There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book? Granny Rudin

yet to be moved by music is essentially human; it reflects sensitivity. The life Gregor led as a human being left no room for this kind of appreciation. But, regressing into an animal, his sensibility has become refined rather than coarsened.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

You want to look fashionable and put-together, not like you hit every sale rack this season.

Gloves make you so much more delicate.

Rafiniert ist der Herr Hietschie, aber böshaft ist er nicht.

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

Tout ce qu'il y avait de plus fin.

Good design is probably something that has been thoroughly thought through to a point of resolution.

Tender creatures, these aristocrats. Who would have guessed?

which Frank and I later refined and published as the book, Magic Demystified: A Pragmatic Guide to Communication and Change.4

Beyonce is graceful, man. Even her way of checking you is graceful.

I'm not that refined academy player who's going to pick the ball up, pass it and be neat and tidy all the time. I'm a player who's going to get it and run at the full-back, run in behind.

A vision is not a static picture but a process that gets refined over time

We are soon approaching a refined holiday, "Merry Mas, " where Christ will be taken out of its context.

It was all conveyed by the nicest, almost indetectably refined blend of sympathy and bitchiness...

Melancholy is a kind of boredom refined, the feeling that one does not belong to this world. It's a sensation of irremediable exile, without immediate cause. Melancholy is a feeling deeply autonomous, also independent of the failure of those great personal successes. Nostalgia, on the contrary, still clings to something, even if it is only to the past.

In moments of frustration one may not have refined comments.

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

I had a 'Monty Python' CD, and I would listen to it in the car on the way to school. It also refined my British accent. I can do a killer British accent because I'm just imitating 'Monty Python.'

This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.

I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see.