Polished Quotes
196 quotes by 179 authors
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
— Edmund Burke
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I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.
— Billy Bush
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
— Lord Byron
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O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.
— William Shakespeare
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Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive,…
— William Cowper
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We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches…
— Mark Twain
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He's very knowledgeable. That's the one advantage that I see in Kobe Bryant's career compared to Michael Jordan. Ten years into Kobe Bryant's career, we're…
— Scottie Pippen
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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Observation is like a piece of glass, which, as a mirror, must be very smooth, and must be very carefully polished, in order that it…
— Justus von Liebig
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Even if there were two of me, I still couldn't do all that has to be done. No matter what, though, I keep up my…
— Haruki Murakami
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Let Go of Your Worries Let go of your worries and be completely clear-hearted, like the face of a mirror that contains no images. If…
— Rumi
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Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake,…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and…
— Lord Chesterfield
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The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished…
— Edward Weston
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Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
— Lord Chesterfield
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The youthful sparkle in Ronald Reagan's eyes is caused by his contact lenses, which he keeps highly polished.
— Sheilah Graham Westbrook
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People are not afraid of death, they are afraid of losing their separation, they are afraid of losing their ego. Once you start feeling separate…
— Rajneesh
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But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it…
— James Taylor
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What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of…
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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179 authors contributed a total of 196 Polished Quotes, led by these top contributors: