“Refinement is the sign of deficient vitality, in art, in love, and in everything.” — E.M. Cioran 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
During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns. — Bernard Ingham Copy Share Image
A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the… — Kwame Nkrumah 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
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 belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic… — Hannah Arendt 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
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
A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art--the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one… — Lynn Margulis 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
I am thrilled that DDLJ has beaten all records, Shah Rukh Khan and I share a close friendship that translates onto the… — Kajol Copy Share Image
When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This is not a new world - it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
My friend had a brilliant idea. This impressed me. It reflected an immense deal of credit on his brain. But when he… — Marvin L. Cohen 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
Our girls have need of such an example of graciousness, elegance, refinement, and spirituality. — Maria Young Dougall Copy Share Image
We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasnt time… — Tony Fadell Copy Share Image
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. — Donald G. Mitchell Copy Share Image
We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. — Albert Einstein 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
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement. — William Morris Copy Share Image
“Discipline is the result of an action, while refinement is a preparation of your calling.” — Robin Bertram Copy Share Image
