Quotes about Sophistication

I can give you a cup of tea in no time-and you won't meet any bores.

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet alone. To this end she had founded the Lunch Club, an association composed of herself and several other indomitable huntresses of erudition.

I guess because I came to it later in life, I realized, 'Oh, going to a fashion show is like going to the opening of Degas at the Met or going to see Swan Lake.'

I was always intrigued by the idea of bringing things together that are considered taboo or risque and bringing them together with something of high elegance and sophistication.

It's great playing a mature character. It adds something.

In my day, the films you got were about mature people, people with some kind of weight.

People will always respond to high-class drama.

She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.