Refined Quotes

210 Refined quotes by 186 unique authors

The most refined form of sexual attractiveness - as well as the most refined form of sexual pleasure - consists in going against the grain… — Susan Sontag
If Mrs Merkel wants to wear Westwood, I can promise that I will design clothes for her that will make her look chic, refined and… — Vivienne Westwood
A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who… — Yves Saint Laurent
Enlightenment simply means that you've gotten above the body-mind complex. You've refined the self, dissolved it in the white light of eternity and gone through… — Frederick Lenz
Love is the grand motive of the plan of salvation; it is the source of happiness, the ever-renewing spring of healing, the precious fountain of… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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

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