It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Love is the creative refinement of sex energy. And so, when love reaches perfection, the absence of sex automatically follows. A life… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness. — Edouard Manet Copy Share Image
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
“I have come to believe that our innate purpose is nothing more than to be the greatest version of ourselves. It is… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The fires of refinement come with a cost, but also with a promise. His grace has been extended forth to you for… — Robin Bertram Copy Share Image
Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns. — Bernard Ingham Copy Share Image
You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not… — Penelope Leach Copy Share Image
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out. — Horace Copy Share Image
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants. — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“There we were, filled with pure animal need, as he pinned me to the wooden table, and cruelly whipped my naked bottom;… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
Cutting down the enemy is the way of strategy, and there is no need for many refinements of it. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
As you know, shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
