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Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object. -- William Hazlitt
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
Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity. -- Charlotte Mary Yonge
Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps. -- Niklaus Wirth
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. -- Albert Einstein
I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time. -- Jewel
With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face. -- Iain Glen
I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability. -- H. L. Hunt
The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful, unsexed creature without it as a woman is. -- Charlotte Mary Yonge
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
All the expensive cars, clothes, shoes, bags, jewelries, and other accessories can never make one very refined and sophisticated. Refinement and sophistication can only come from a very enlightened mind. -- Edmond Mbiaka
If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. -- Bryant H. McGill
True refinement seeks simplicity. -- Bruce Lee
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
A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. -- Donald G. Mitchell
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 Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes. -- David Rockefeller
You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three. -- Sam Altman
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
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion. -- Edmund Burke
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity. -- Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement. -- Raymond Queneau
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants. -- Robert Andrews Millikan
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure. -- Lincoln Steffens
But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. -- Donald G. Mitchell
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
Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum... they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment. -- Kelly Wearstler
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
Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life. -- Jose Rizal
The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing. -- Ellen G. White
We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming. -- Howard Carter
Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever. -- Ezra Taft Benson
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
The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect. -- Felix Adler
I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never even blow my nose. -- Helen Mirren
Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty and have a mysterious refinement when cooked or roasted over sea salt. -- Geoffrey Zakarian
God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement. -- Charles Stanley
I think the time is ripe for a return to the refinement of lifestyle that the pocket watch embodies. A personal pleasure that you know you have in your pocket, which requires an elegant gesture to use and show to others. -- Richard Mille
It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by an intelligent delight in scenery, are elements of the first importance in the education of the young. -- Frederick William Faber
No one would say, 'Hey, I think this medicine works, go ahead and use it.' We have testing, we go to the lab, we try it again, we have refinement. But you know what we do on the last mile? 'Oh, this is a good idea. People will like this. Let's put it out there.' -- Sendhil Mullainathan
Lamborghini is refinement, luxury and perfection. -- Ferruccio Lamborghini
There is nothing so catching as refinement. -- Emily Eden
All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement. -- Tom Piazza
A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns. -- Bernard Ingham
The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief. -- William Hazlitt
The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation. -- Mary Somerville
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Change is REFINEMENT. Change is GROWTH. Change is MOVEMENT. Change is OPPORTUNITY. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort, and refinement. -- Arthur Gray
A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense. -- Lord Byron
It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage. -- Samuel Johnson
Our girls have need of such an example of graciousness, elegance, refinement, and spirituality. -- Maria Young Dougall
EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement. -- William Morris
That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity. -- Sigourney Weaver
Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness. -- Aaron Copland
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. -- Hosea Ballou
We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh. -- George Meredith
I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction. -- Natalie Dormer
Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement. -- E. M. Forster
Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources. -- Niklaus Wirth
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
The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety. -- Eric Sevareid
Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness. -- Edouard Manet
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People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life. -- Aristotle
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
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
To become balanced, meditate on the heart center in the center of the chest. There you will experience happiness, refinement, sensitivity, beauty, laughter. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment. -- Kelly Wearstler
Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy. -- Richard Asher
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
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
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
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
I don't know if the music moves forward anymore. I haven't heard anything for years - except refinement - coming out of the jazz world. -- Paul Smoker
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
Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal. -- 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
Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention. -- Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of slavery. -- Kwame Nkrumah
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Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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. -- Marcus Aurelius
I want to bring softness and refinement to an urban, feminine wardrobe and to help the woman show her character and individuality through her unique clothes. -- Catherine Malandrino
Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
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
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words. -- Barbara Walters
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There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of refinement and nobility of character. -- Maria Jane McIntosh
All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever. -- Ashley Montagu
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The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent. -- Jane Addams
The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her own means of expression. -- Andrea Bocelli
There is still refinement needed - we are working on being able to do the same things at lower light levels and with a larger field of view. -- Stefan Hell
Style is a continuum. Style never changes. It's a straight line. It's a refinement of the same vocabulary. Style takes you from day to evening, season to season. -- Ralph Rucci
The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice. -- James Ellis
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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The way our world is set up, a higher economic priority is given to things that bespeak a greater refinement. It is just a determination that was made, to make money. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement -- Mark Twain
Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as faith, courage, empathy and refinement in relationships and in cultures, -- D. Todd Christofferson
The process of discovering your fearless self is of refinement, not adding. The best way to reconnect with your freedom is to look at the rules you have that govern your freedom. -- Steve Maraboli

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