Quotes of Refinement - somelinesforyou

“ Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford. ”

- John Braford

“ The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing. ”

- Sri Ramakrishna

“ No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Punctuality is the politeness of kings. ”

- Louis XVIII

“ Cultivate tact for it is the mark of culture... the lubricant of human relations, softening contacts and minimizing friction. ”

- Baltasar Gracian

“ I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks. ”

- Bernardo Bertolucci

“ If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds. ”

- Marcus Valerius Martial

“ Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace? ”

- Edward Young

“ You talk too sophisticated for me. I don't understand. ”

- Seve Ballesteros

“ Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. ”

- Oliver Herford

“ Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture. ”

- Charlotte Bunch

“ I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared. ”

- Hedy Lamarr

“ I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding. ”

- Gustav Mahler

“ The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture. ”

- John McLaughlin

“ My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures. ”

- Jet Li

“ He was not only a bore; he bored for England. ”

- Malcolm Muggeridge

“ You like it when someone becomes a pop-culture icon and deserves it. ”

- Jonathan Klein

“ Grace tried is better than grace, and it is more than grace, it is glory in its infancy. ”

- Samuel Rutherford

“ The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, — luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, — are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. ”

- Charles Horton Cooley

“ The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently. ”

- Eugene Delacroix

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

- Cicero

“ The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ True refinement seeks simplicity. ”

- Bruce Lee

“ Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself. ”

- Maxwell Maltz

“ Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. ”

- Jean Baudrillard

“ 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. ”

- Alice James
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