Polished Quotes

Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

The air and the sky seem to have been freshly washed and polished, and the people too.

I don't like seeing the stuff that's not polished. It's harder for me to step away from it and watch that.

Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.

I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.

I love to eat an apple after a meal, just to cleanse my teeth - they always look polished afterwards.

Long friendships are like jewels, polished over time to become beautiful and enduring.

My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs do from the cobblestones.

It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

A 3K word story might well be done in some caffeine-and-nicotine-fuelled 36 hour session, and at the end of it, there'll be a few passes of editing required, but I basically have a polished draft.

In the good times of Dada, we detested polished works, the distracted air of spiritual struggle, the titans, and we rejected them with all out being.

Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.

I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode.

Donald Trump's not a polished politician like Hillary Clinton.

I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights.

O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.

Defined brows instantly make you look more polished.

I'm glad I can present a polished version of myself when it counts.

Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.

My hair is wild and free, but I've always been told that [straight hair] is more polished, and a more polished version of yourself is a better version of yourself. That it's more professional.

The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court.

I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.

I adore clothes - they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished.

You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.

Jim Rohn is outstanding! He is among the most polished, professional speakers in America, with a message everyone should hear.

I had set about trying to make myself more polished than a country boy would be.

I find I don't need to be polished. I feel that you have to keep it real, and that's the best way to go.

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.

Yea, Paris is a festive ton -- a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy -- Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath?

My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished.

When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe.

I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.

And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.

A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]

[Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV.

I say everything and I do whatever I want to do. I'm just me. The polished version of me, I suppose, because I have on clothes and makeup. But emotionally, I am very on the surface.

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.

But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.

If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.

A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.

On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as water does a stone or the generations of men do a sentence.

New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down, he gets polished.

A Pretty Mouth is a fine and stylish collection that pays homage to the tradition of the weird while blazing its own sinister mark. Tanzer's debut is as sharp and polished as any I've seen.

It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.