30 Refinement Quotes for You to Enjoy

The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance. Paul Washer

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. Albert Einstein

Science Nothing Thinking Everyday More Refinement Than Whole

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Great Political Impossible Animals Own Our Ourselves Rather Cage Leaders Built Refinement Political Leaders Domesticated Revolving Which Exploit Who

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. Bryant H. McGill

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

Woman Language Mark Virtuous Dress True Hallmark Saint Refinement Modesty

Living in Manhattan opened me to whole new sets of things to envy, study, gather and imagine stealing. A full-size 1809 German harp, beautifully painted with three goddesses, covered in a pea-green coat of great silvery refinement: mine for $180. Though all its strings were broken, its beauty let it claim a quarter of my one - bedroom. Allan Gurganus

Great Me Broken Envy Three Beauty Living Sets Harp Mine Strings Claim Though Stealing Study Opened New Beautifully Bedroom Quarter Were Covered Refinement German Goddesses Manhattan Coat Painted Whole Things Imagine Gather

A small foot in China, no different from a tiny waist in Victorian England, represented the height of female refinement. For families with marriageable daughters, foot size translated into its own form of currency and a means of achieving upward mobility. The most desirable bride possessed a three-inch foot, known as a 'golden lotus.' Amanda Foreman

Own Possessed Small Daughters Foot Most Known Female Waist Mobility Refinement Lotus Families Currency Tiny Golden Different Size Achieving Form Upward Upward Mobility China Victorian Height Translated Means England Bride Desirable

Is it 'a drag' that passions don't come to us all at once, as epiphanies, without the need to actively develop them? Maybe. But the reality is that our early interests are fragile, vaguely defined, and in need of energetic, years-long cultivation and refinement. Angela Duckworth

God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement. Charles Stanley

The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin; and that gives unrealistic levels of esteem. Somebody feels they're not right because they haven't got that type of refinement. Douglas Kirkland

The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing. Ellen G. White

Dignity Humble Christ Manners Possess Ministers Bearing Uncouth Attitudes Discarded Encourage Refinement Gestures Themselves Should

I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never even blow my nose. Helen Mirren

Dignity Sense Embarrassed Battling Could Never Always Been Refinement Blow Any Nose Against Younger Bodily Even Functions

Modern man is in crisis. He has degenerated from the redoubtable pillar he became through centuries of refinement and slipped resignedly into the popular depiction of himself as a witless under-achiever, incapable of looking after himself or those around him. James May

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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. Jean Baudrillard

The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals. John Adams

Affliction Furnace States Individuals Well Refinement Produces

I think 'Chef' is about somebody who's in the middle of his life, and he's kind of lost his passion and his voice, so he seeks out some refinement and redemption. Jon Favreau

Life Passion Somebody Lost Think Out Kind Some Seeks About Voice He Redemption Chef His Refinement Middle

Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum... they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment. Kelly Wearstler

Luxurious Complementary Features Environment Opposite Refinement Ends Which Spectrum Two

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

Failure Grace Degree Hypocrisy Practice Carried Boston Refinement

I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction. Natalie Dormer

Great Down Something Dirty Attraction Lot Refinement Really Elegance Played

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps. Niklaus Wirth

Construction Consists Steps Refinement Sequence Program

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core. Robert Pinsky

Art Intelligence Think Refinement Human Center Human Intelligence Ornament Core

It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection. Samuel Freeman Miller

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