Refinement Quotes

Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody.

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

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.

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

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

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.

We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasnt time for endless refinements.

There is nothing so catching as refinement.

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

Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity.

The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.