Refined Quotes

210 Refined quotes by 186 unique authors

Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many bridges that connect… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging. — Joseph Sobran
This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind. — Stevie Smith
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are… — Benjamin Haydon
There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed… — Agnes Smedley
Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for… — Mark Bittman
And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument.… — Vanessa Carlton
I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where… — Katherine Helmond
The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who… — Margaret D. Nadauld
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and… — Willard Gaylin
A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor. — Terry Orlick
Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the… — Theodore T. Munger
Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox, and… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
May be refined, and join the angelic train. — Phillis Wheatley
Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally… — Joseph Addison
The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow. — Samuel Johnson
The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.… — Pablo Picasso
I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age. — John Evelyn

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