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
“As your consciousness, refinement and pureness of heart expands you will become less judgmental, less corrective, less reactive, less black-and-white, less critical,… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
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
“It is not just a question of blowing up a building or shooting a prime minister. Such bourgeois horseplay is not contemplated.… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is,… — James Henry Hammond 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
A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system was not… — Herbert Spencer Jennings Copy Share Image
As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When you are but slightly involved in the world, the effect the world has on you is also slight. When you are… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
The British have their own conception of what constitutes the typical American. He must have a flavor of the Wild West about… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labour… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build the most important function that software builders… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that value investing is not a perfect science. It is an, with an ongoing need for judgment,… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
So, in the tulip, we have a flower of beauty and grace of charm, refinement and distinction. It is a powerful flower… — Tadashi Shoji Copy Share Image
Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of… — Maria Jane McIntosh Copy Share Image
Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in… — Jean de la Bruyere 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
Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful,… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology. — Aldous Huxley 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
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
