A Quote by Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

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.

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

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Against Carries Class Convention Elegance Excellence Exclusivity Fall Greatness Guard Need Refinement Urgent Yale

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Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
American - Celebrity
Born: March 20, 1942

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

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

Maria Young Dougall

Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.

Henry Ward Beecher

Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.

Henry Ward Beecher

I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'

M. Stanton Evans

Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?

Charles Gounod

New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.

Tom Piazza

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

Samuel Johnson

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.

Dick Cavett

In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement.

James Henry Hammond

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

Natalie Dormer

The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social as well as to physical problems, and we must carefully guard ourselves against supposing that the scientific frame of mind is a peculiarity of the professional scientist.

Karl Pearson

Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football.

Jim Harbaugh

The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

Andre Leon Talley

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.

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

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