Top 133 Cultured Quotes & Sayings

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle

Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

My view is that knowing languages is part of the process of becoming a cultured person.

Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not read. They buy something that theyve been told is good, make an unsuccessful attempt to read it, and when they have accumulated half a dozen unread books, feel so bad that they are afraid to buy more. In contrast, the truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

I'll always remember Vinod Khanna as a thorough gentleman, cultured, polite, who knew how to conduct himself with the ladies.

Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.

Science, it is said, no doubt has ameliorated the material conditions of human life, but is powerless to solve those moral and philosophical questions that interest cultured people so deeply.

I know Priyanka Chopra personally. She is a cultured, decent and educated person and the fact remains that she is an Indian.

It is unacceptable that the system we rely on to develop children into well-adjusted, learned, cultured adults allows drones to dominate and increasingly devalues freethinkers.

Black women have been cultured to compare not connect.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg.

I'm not doing 'Once' to prove that I'm worldly or cultured. I just love the role.

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

Roots of the weed sucked first life from the genesis of earth and hold the essence of it still. Always the weed returns; the cultured plant retreats before it.

I feel like I'm cultured enough to fit into any environment.

I come from a well-educated and cultured, middle-class Maharashtrian family and have been brought up with social awareness.

We're a Muslim family, but we're also very cultured and we have a mixture of different religions. For example, my brother-in-law is Catholic, and my sister converted and my nephews are baptized. I have an uncle who just graduated and currently he's a priest.

The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

I have a cultured manner of speaking.

Partner dancing is a cultured act.

We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v)

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Ahmedabad is a cultured city with a rich heritage of craft and theatre.

I'm listening to Aphex Twin. That makes me cultured and interesting.

Even though I am from Jersey, not to put Jersey down, I like Jersey, but I think I'm more cultured.

I have a problem with the new cooks: you all are more cultured, you cook better....but you're lazier.

Why are infectious disease doctors the best ones to date? They are the most cultured and sensitive.

I'm from South Carolina. I'm from a real cultured state, where there's still racism daily. Still, places are segregated.

The whole of my life, what they wanted was honesty. They were not concerned with cultured football, but with triers who gave one hundred percent.

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

Theater actually took time to pique my interest. It just wasn't a part of my upbringing. I don't have anyone in the arts in my family. I wasn't brought up particularly cultured. It was always TV and film for me.

I've decided to just keep doing Oh, Hello, where I play an older man who thinks he's very cultured. That clearly has not gone away.

There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.

We Americans look funny when we're in France because we don't travel, we are fairly un-cultured whereas Europeans go to Africa all the time because it's right there.

Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child's pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.

Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?

Wit is cultured insolence.

My parents weren't cultured people.

Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.

The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

We have to be cultured in our criticism of a tall leader like our Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

I guess as far as leftists are concerned, the United States can't qualify as a 'cultured society' simply because we've actually created a society that works.

I think Judge Learned Hand was a cultured, intelligent man.

I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other.

On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich.

It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

I grew up in a very artistic, cultured home, but without any kind of spirituality. My parents were secular materialists, so I saw art as having an alternate value.

If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.

The people in Chennai and Mumbai are equally cultured and well-informed.

I'm sorry I'm not more cultured. I'll watch PBS. And cut people open for fun. Will that be better? Will you be less embarrassed to be my fledgling then?

Hey yogurt, if you're so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera?

You know, I didn't grow up in a cultured household. We were all highly intelligent, but we were common, simple people. We weren't activists, none of that.