It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation. — Mary Somerville Copy Share Image
The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“All of history has pointed its refining focus to your life this moment.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
I don't know if the music moves forward anymore. I haven't heard anything for years - except refinement - coming out of… — Paul Smoker Copy Share Image
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
“Her every movement transfixed him; she was graceful and refined. She’d become a woman. An elegant woman.” — Jan Moran Copy Share Image
Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best… — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
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 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
No improvement that takes place in either sex can possibly be confined to itself. Each is a universal mirror to each, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every young woman should dress well, that is, neatly, tastefully, modestly, whether she be rich or poor. Conspicuous dressing is vulgar. True… — J.R. Miller 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
Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
One should put forth great effort in matters of learning. One should read books concerning military matters, and direct his attention exclusively… — Kato Kiyomasa Copy Share Image
Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of… — Fukuzawa Yukichi 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
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is… — Alice James Copy Share Image
The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street. — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind. — B.K.S. Iyengar 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
Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out. — Horace Copy Share Image
There is a certain beauty and refinement that is often found in our world and it is expensive. It shouldn't necessarily be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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