Cultured Quotes

65 quotes by 60 authors

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing. — Leonard Bernstein
Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten.… — Annie Besant
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. — Samuel Butler
Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into… — Helena Bonham Carter
In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one would speak of… — Adolf Hitler
It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions… — Mahatma Gandhi
So many gay jokes tonight about (James) Franco. Apparently if you're clean, well dressed and mildly cultured, you're super gay now. Is that why the… — Aziz Ansari
It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet — Mahatma Gandhi
Roots of the weed sucked first life from the genesis of earth and hold the essence of it still. Always the weed returns; the cultured… — Beryl Markham
Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation as a substitute for debate,… — Spiro T. Agnew
I have a problem with the new cooks: you all are more cultured, you cook better....but you're lazier. — Juan Mari Arzak
Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture. — Zac Posen
I'm listening to Aphex Twin. That makes me cultured and interesting. — Thom Yorke
On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered. — Amos Oz
Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity… — Bergen Evans
This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the acquaintance of the… — Indu Sundaresan
Apollo without Dionysus may indeed be a well-informed, good citizen but he's a dull fellow. He may even be 'cultured,' in the sense one often… — Jerome Bruner
The whole of my life, what they wanted was honesty. They were not concerned with cultured football, but with triers who gave one hundred percent. — Bob Paisley
Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with… — Rich Mullins
My view is that knowing languages is part of the process of becoming a cultured person. — KatÃ³ Lomb

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