Quotes of Refined - somelinesforyou

“ Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential. ”

- Willard Gaylin

“ Society is now one polished horde, — Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored. ”

- Lord Byron

“ An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. ”

- Robert Anson Heinlein

“ The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. ”

- Jean de la Bruyere

“ It is a curious thing … that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. ”

- Evelyn Waugh

“ In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Stevie Smith

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

- Susannah Centlivre

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

- Frederick William Robertson

“ The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor the man without trials. ”

- Confucius

“ The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. ”

- Daniel Defoe

“ Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste. ”

- Nikki Giovanni

“ The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks. ”

- Owen Meredith

“ A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. ”

- Robert Frost

“ When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected "I believe" to "One does feel.". ”

- Ronald Knox

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

- Rumi

“ Admiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. ”

- Grenville Kleiser

“ What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight. ”

- William Safire

“ Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ To the art of working well a civilized race would add the art of playing well. ”

- George Santayana

“ All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ If fear is cultivated it will become stronger. If faith is cultivated it will achieve the mastery… faith is the stronger emotion because it is positive, whereas fear is negative. ”

- John Paul Jones

“ Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews; The rage but not the talent to abuse. ”

- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

“ When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing. ”

- George McGovern

“ So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. ”

- Lord Byron
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