Refined Quotes

210 Refined quotes by 186 unique authors

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass through… — George Will
People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about… — Nadia Giosia
The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes… — Evelyn Glennie
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes… — Charles Horton Cooley
So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end… — Alice Cooper
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness. — Robert Delaunay
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring… — James Joyce
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. — D. H. Lawrence
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. — Thomas Mann
I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the… — Jose Saramago
The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in… — George Saunders
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. — Laurence Sterne
Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into… — John Sununu
The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are. — Paul Tournier
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that… — Mark Twain
Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here… — Morihei Ueshiba
The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being. — Andrew Weil
My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about… — Oscar Wilde
...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners... — Nikolai Gogol
Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught,… — Alexander Pope
While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of… — Horace Greeley
You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant… — Dorothy Parker

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