The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in…

I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

— Natasha Tsakos

A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material, and purpose.…

— Eliot Noyes

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Does power bring happiness? Does it bring refinement? Does it bring humor? Does it bring a good-heartedness, or is it just cold? Power is…

— Frederick Lenz

As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class…

— James Henry Hammond

There is a certain beauty and refinement that is often found in our world and it is expensive. It shouldn't necessarily be so. It…

— Frederick Lenz

The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring…

— Edward Gibbon

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

— William Hazlitt

Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of…

— Anonymous

Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Every young woman should dress well, that is, neatly, tastefully, modestly, whether she be rich or poor. Conspicuous dressing is vulgar. True refinement avoids…

— J.R. Miller

Sometime in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated to cause us to turn to our Heavenly Father for…

— Delbert L. Stapley

To become balanced, meditate on the heart center in the center of the chest. There you will experience happiness, refinement, sensitivity, beauty, laughter.

— Frederick Lenz

“Refinement. A man who is decorous and mannerly. One who is– (Nora) Boring. (Cat) How so? (Nora) Have you ever been around such men?…

— Kinley MacGregor