Top 346 Polished Quotes & Sayings

The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.

And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.

Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing, after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies." Mr. Darcy: "Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world; every savage can dance.

Defined brows instantly make you look more polished.

I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.

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

Even at our height, we were never very polished.

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.

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

Claude Rains is my favorite actor. He's so utterly polished and competent, no matter what he does.

The House of Andrews really invented what we know as polished, glamour drag.

The key to my accuracy is making sure my feet are set right and trying to have a more polished throwing motion, a more polished stroke, you can say. When my feet are right, my hips are allowed to open a little better, which is kind of where your accuracy comes from.

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

When I travel, it makes me wish I looked completely polished all the time. I don't. I live in sweats.

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

Theatre polished me as an artist.

I went to acting school, and I polished my dancing, but I didn't really learn how to fight.

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

Let me get this straight. Your table ran away because you polished it with Windex?

I'm not perfect. I'm not polished.

The cutting edge of service is always being honed and polished.

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.

Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the new generations have all to learn. There may possibly be books without a polished language, but there can be no polished language without books.

My mother kept all my awards on the sideboard of her front room, and she polished them. She polished everything religiously. And it doesn't take long for the very thin layer of gold to disappear and the base metal underneath to show through.

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.

I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft. I wrote him a bitter letter: How can you call this a draft? I don't do drafts! By now I've done 18, and its turning, in the rehearsal room, into a 19th.

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

I think I proved that I was a polished receiver.

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

Gold, we think, is something polished and perfect, sophisticated, a luxury. But in its natural state, it's a raw element.

Perfection is a polished collection of errors.

But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Perhaps misguidedly, I always admire the people who are so polished.

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

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

A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered.

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.

Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality.

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

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

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

I definitely feel I'm outside of the polished pop girl group, which feels right. I don't think I could keep up that polished surface on purpose.

Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

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

When doing films, ones acting skills are polished, and the actor delivers a better performance.

I'm not a polished politician.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

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

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

For me, joy is eating home-cooked payasam in a bowl that I have cleaned and polished myself.

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.

I'm real. I'm not polished.

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

I think Jared [Kushner] is an unusually polished person.

Being a pageant girl taught me to be polished, poised and slap on a smile.