Top 405 Refined Quotes & Sayings

Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.

Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.

All recurring joy is pain refined.

Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

I began researching natural healing, which is how I came to change my diet. Overnight, I gave up refined sugar, gluten, dairy, anything processed or refined, and meat.

Perestroika is nothing more than refined Stalinism.

A man of refined taste and judgment.

An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.

The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adopting the most heroic pursuits.

How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.

If I eat refined carbs or foods that have the potential to bloat, I notice the baby pouch again.

Why must we love the Lord? Because as we do so, we become refined, pure, and holy.

Don't be defined by your failures, be refined by them.

My accent is not very refined as it has the typical U.P. touch. So I am trying to overcome that.

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

Success is a refined study of the obvious

Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.

I believe that I definitely developed into a refined and graceful woman due to ballet. It has shaped me in every way.

In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.

I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.

Public-policy-wise, if you want to be consistent, crude oil is a bulk commodity, and you should be able to export it. I would rather the crude go to U.S. refineries to get refined and then export the refined product because we get double, triple the money.

Clothes can have a very refined vibration. An ochre robe can be extremely refined and so can a wonderful satin gown or a silk brocade coast.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

In moments of frustration one may not have refined comments.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

It's impossible to be refined when we don't know how to listen.

A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.

Will is developed in meditation. It is refined. It is within you, but you don't know how to get to it.

Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined.

Audiences in the U.S. can sometimes be a lot less refined. If they like something, they tend to express it more loudly.

The worst drug of today is not smack or pot - it's refined sugar.

I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.

I'm not refined, I'm raw and real and I wear what I want and I have always been so different and golf is not that way.

Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.

The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily and gracefully satisfied seem like a more refined pleasure. Their conception of creation is peaceful as a dream.

The most refined form of sexual attractiveness - as well as the most refined form of sexual pleasure - consists in going against the grain of one's sex.

Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character.

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.

Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful.

This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.

The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!

A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man.

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

Over the course of those 12 episodes we discarded what didn't work and kept what did and that refined it.

There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.

A refined sort of butcher, a woman is.

Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

May be refined, and join the angelic train.

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.