Refined Quotes

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. (Colette)
The more refined the more unhappy. View quote
Anton Chekhov
There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined. View quote
Georg Büchner
I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility - I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling. View quote
Frances Burney
This Englishwoman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind. View quote
Stevie Smith
We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. View quote
Charles Cooley
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. View quote
Thomas Mann
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. View quote
Mark Twain
I eat nothing that's processed or refined - no high-fructose corn syrup, no sugar, no trans-fats. I eat a lot of fish and monounsaturated fats from olives, olive oil and nuts. A lot of organic, fresh fruits and vegetables. No bread. No gluten. No wheat. No rice. View quote
Dean Karnazes
The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. [...] It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around. (Mary Pickford)
Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise, Discord, Jargon. But such only as spring heavenward, and I may catch from steeples and hilltops in their upward course, which are the more refined parts of the former, are the true sphere music - pure, unmixed music - in which no wail mingles. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists. View quote
Ragnar Frisch
How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime. View quote
Ian McEwan
Compared to the refined culture of sclerotic forms and frames, which mask everything, the lyrical mode is utterly barbarian in its expression. Its value resides precisely in its savage quality: it is only blood, sincerity, and fire. View quote
Emil Cioran
Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented." We like to believe that these fragments have meanings in themselves - apart from the great webs of structure from which they emerge - and indeed this illusion is valuable to us qua thinkers - but not to us as psychologists - because it leads us to think that expressible knowledge is the first thing to study. View quote
Marvin Minsky
The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education. View quote
Joseph Addison
Meditation ... puts into question more or less everything you tend to do in your search for happiness. But if you lose sight of this, it can become just another strategy for seeking happiness-a more refined version of the problem you already have. View quote
Sam Harris
Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of Italian political life he is ready upon cold request to provide an inquiry brief refined in the most minute details is a nice comfort. But also a bit unsettling. The day I asked him if in that archive, into which no one is allowed to stick their nose, there were a brief with my name on it, Marco changed the subject. View quote
Indro Montanelli
I saw Hamlet Pr: of Denmark played: but now the old playe began to disgust this refined age. View quote
John Evelyn
Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox. (Isaac Leib Peretz)
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization. View quote
Lytton Strachey
As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness. There is the type magisterial or imperative; the type laconic or sententious; the type conversational or homely; the type refined or artificial, smelling of the lamp, verging at times upon preciosity or euphuism; the demonstrative or persuasive; and finally the type tonsorial or agglutinative, so called from the shears and the pastepot which are its implements and emblem. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by means of the method of porisms is not so easy, nor is one's ingenuity and power of invention so greatly exercised and refined in this analysis. View quote
Isaac Newton
The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being. View quote
Andrew Weil