Refinement Quotes

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

Christ was either the grandest, guiltiest of impostors, by a marvelous and most subtle refinement of wickedness, or He was God manifest in the flesh.

Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.

Style is a continuum. Style never changes. It's a straight line. It's a refinement of the same vocabulary. Style takes you from day to evening, season to season.

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 being told, that's a technical refinement.

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

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 can do.

Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as faith, courage, empathy and refinement in relationships and in cultures.

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.

The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent.

Our girls have need of such an example of graciousness, elegance, refinement, and spirituality.

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

So, in the tulip, we have a flower of beauty and grace of charm, refinement and distinction. It is a powerful flower and it knows it

Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind.

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.

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.

Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.

Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.

I want to bring softness and refinement to an urban, feminine wardrobe and to help the woman show her character and individuality through her unique clothes.

Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful, unsexed creature without it as a woman is.

Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity.

In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.

There is nothing so catching as refinement.

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 cold. Cold people may use power in cold ways.

There is a certain beauty and refinement that is often found in our world and it is expensive. It shouldn't necessarily be so. It is just the way our economic system is.

The way our world is set up, a higher economic priority is given to things that bespeak a greater refinement. It is just a determination that was made, to make money.

To become balanced, meditate on the heart center in the center of the chest. There you will experience happiness, refinement, sensitivity, beauty, laughter.

The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.

The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.

We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh.

America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.

A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.

Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.

A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of refinement and nobility of character.

I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement

During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.

I don't know if the music moves forward anymore. I haven't heard anything for years - except refinement - coming out of the jazz world.

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.