EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense. — Lord Byron 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
I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction. — Natalie Dormer 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
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The way our world is set up, a higher economic priority is given to things that bespeak a greater refinement. It is… — Frederick Lenz 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
I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger.… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and… — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly 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
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
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
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
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 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
We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
In my individual heart I fully believe my faith is as robust as yours. The trouble with your robust and full bodied… — William James Copy Share Image
There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety. — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
“Every day, strive to refine your contagious shine, and shake the nonsense offered by those who lack the will to polish-up from… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and… — Richard Asher 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
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways,… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum... they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe… — Kelly Wearstler Copy Share Image
There is still refinement needed - we are working on being able to do the same things at lower light levels and… — Stefan Hell Copy Share Image
To become balanced, meditate on the heart center in the center of the chest. There you will experience happiness, refinement, sensitivity, beauty,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness. — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent,… — Edmund Burke 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
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