Refinement Quotes · Page 3

A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.

— Lord Byron

EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.

— Karl Lagerfeld

I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.

— Natalie Dormer

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's…

— Robert Pinsky

The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

— Andre Leon Talley

Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.

— Sigourney Weaver

Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of…

— Thomas de Quincey

Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.

— Niklaus Wirth

I don't know if the music moves forward anymore. I haven't heard anything for years - except refinement - coming out of…

— Paul Smoker

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their…

— David Hume

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. I don't feel that's really up to us. That happens at a certain time when our being…

— Frederick Lenz

The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There we were, filled with pure animal need, as he pinned me to the wooden table, and cruelly whipped my naked bottom;…

— Fiona Thrust

If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

No one wants adversity. Trials, disappointments, sadness, and heartache come to us from two basically different sources. Those who transgress the laws…

— Richard G. Scott

In life we only try to produce, to win, and enjoy the more we can; in science, to discoverand invent the more…

— African Spir

When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is…

— William Hazlitt

I am thrilled that DDLJ has beaten all records, Shah Rukh Khan and I share a close friendship that translates onto the…

— Kajol

When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have…

— Samuel Johnson

Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Change is REFINEMENT. Change is GROWTH. Change is MOVEMENT. Change is OPPORTUNITY.

— Jeffrey Gitomer

Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.

— Horace

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

— George MacDonald

The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.

— Mary Somerville

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

— Samuel Johnson

Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.

— Alex Grey

The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.

— William Hazlitt

The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

— Lincoln Steffens

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

— Jewel

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them…

— Eugene Delacroix

“All of history has pointed its refining focus to your life this moment.”

— Bryant McGill

“Discipline is the result of an action, while refinement is a preparation of your calling.”

— Robin Bertram