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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.
— Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate harmony.
— Maria Montessori
Her every movement transfixed him; she was graceful and refined. She'd become a woman. An elegant woman.
— Jan Moran
I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
— Natasha Tsakos
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Is romantic yearning an appetite for [H]eaven, or is it the ultimate refinement of covetousness?
— Jocelyn Gibb
God sees Himself in the eyes of the refined soul.
— Robin Bertram
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.
— Wassily Kandinsky
Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.
— E. M. Forster
Poetry is a controlled refinement of sobbing.
— Nicholson Baker
Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Lamborghini is refinement, luxury and perfection.
— Ferruccio Lamborghini
The idea of beauty, like a slab of magnificent marble, has crushed all possible refinement and vitality from the psychology of love.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our girls have need of such an example of graciousness, elegance, refinement, and spirituality.
— Maria Young Dougall
Only you are responsible for the development of your gift and for its brilliant after the process of its refinement
— Sunday Adelaja
The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.
— William Hazlitt
Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
— William Hazlitt
Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness.
— Aaron Copland
Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Change is REFINEMENT. Change is GROWTH. Change is MOVEMENT. Change is OPPORTUNITY.
— Jeffrey Gitomer
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and routThe false refinements that would keep her out. — Horace
Adam was refined dirt; Eve was a glorious refinement of humanity itself. -John MacArthur, Twelve Extraordinary Women
— John F. MacArthur Jr.
Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.
— Niklaus Wirth
You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.
— Stephen Daldry
Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.
— Hosea Ballou
America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
— Robert Andrews Millikan
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.
— George MacDonald
But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
— Donald G. Mitchell
I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.
— Robert Pinsky
Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
— Samuel Johnson
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
God may not give that instant dollar bill your seeking, but it's in the little change He brings, that will add to a dollar.
— Anthony Liccione
There is nothing so catching as refinement.
— Emily Eden
Civilization is refinement of spirit, respect of one's neighbor, tolerance of foreign opinion, courtesy of manner.
— Vicente Blasco Ibanez
So, in the tulip, we have a flower of beauty and grace of charm, refinement and distinction. It is a powerful flower and it knows it
— Tadashi Shoji
It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.
— Sigourney Weaver
False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.
— William Hazlitt
In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.
— Elbert Hubbard
Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity.
— Charlotte Mary Yonge
We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh.
— George Meredith
Entire development would secure him a home only in the midst of civilization and refinement; the higher the state the
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
To be obliged to sit still when mental agony urges us to stride up and down is the refinement of torture. Every
— L.M. Montgomery
Culture has little to do with how refined a man's intellect is; it rather depends on the refinement of his emotions.
— Raheel Farooq
I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
— Natalie Dormer
Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.
— Andre Leon Talley
During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.
— Niklaus Wirth
All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.
— Albert Einstein
The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.
— Eric Sevareid
If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea,
— Wallace Stegner
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
— Lincoln Steffens
It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
— Lawrence Durrell
Living is the refinement of an imperfect model.
— Omar ZahZah
Good enough is good enough. There is time for refinement later. It's not how great you start - it's how great you end up.
— Guy Kawasaki
Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.
— Edouard Manet
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.
— Herrick Johnson
The education of the senses has, as its aim, the refinement of the differential perception of stimuli by means of repeated exercises.
— Maria Montessori
The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
— Henry Ward Beecher
He was smooth water - effortless in refinement but just like still water, dangerous if you couldn't swim.
— Pepper Winters
EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.
— Karl Lagerfeld
