Top 226 Refinement Quotes & Sayings

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.

False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.

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

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

Lamborghini is refinement, luxury and perfection.

Christ was either the grandest, guiltiest of impostors, by a marvelous and most subtle refinement of wickedness, or He was God manifest in the flesh.

Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness.

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

True refinement seeks simplicity.

The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.

I don't know if the music moves forward anymore. I haven't heard anything for years - except refinement - coming out of the jazz world.

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

It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.

Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

Art is a way you discover the past, and so it brings the past into the present and the future. That's why we have anthropologists who dig up the art from the past. You can see the refinement in the society by the art. And people will see our lack of refinement when they dig up our art.

Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity.

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.

A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.

America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

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

There is still refinement needed - we are working on being able to do the same things at lower light levels and with a larger field of view.

The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort, and refinement.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.

Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum... they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

I like to play the lute full-bloodedly, with passion, as well as with delicacy and, I hope, refinement.

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.

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

Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.

The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her own means of expression.

As the flagrant foul's official mascot, Anthony Mason had the genteel refinement of an intentional elbow to the eye socket.

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.

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.

There is nothing so catching as refinement.

Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind.

During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.

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.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide.

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

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

The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.