Refinement Quotes
Refinement Quote of the day
Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of slavery.
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 the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.
truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.
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.
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.
The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.
If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea.
Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.
I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.
Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody.
You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate harmony.
Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.
The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.
I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.
All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.
Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty and have a mysterious refinement when cooked or roasted over sea salt.
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.
Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.
The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and their superior degree of intellectuality.
With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.
In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.
Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.
As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.
It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.
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.
Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness.