Refinement Quotes

145 quotes by 127 authors

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps. — Niklaus Wirth
Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman. — Ezra Taft Benson
It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for… — Hannah Arendt
To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story… — Raymond Queneau
We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh. — George Meredith
Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure. — Lincoln Steffens
Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress,… — Frantz Fanon
You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre… — Stephen Daldry
A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense. — Lord Byron
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is… — John Ruskin
Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention. — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
Does power bring happiness? Does it bring refinement? Does it bring humor? Does it bring a good-heartedness, or is it just cold? Power is never… — Frederick Lenz
Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood. — Jean de la Bruyere
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male. — Charles Caleb Colton
When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one… — William Hazlitt
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. — Albert Einstein
I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time. — Jewel
If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and… — H P Lovecraft

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