Refinement Quotes

• The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
  • Science
  • Everyday

• People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Life
  • Happiness

• Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity.

  

  Charlotte Mary Yonge
  • Christianity
  • Refinement
  • Aroma

• You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not and never seemed to know how to earn it. Your pre-school child is positively asking you to tell him what does and does not earn approval, so he is ready to learn any social refinement of being human which you will teach him....He knows now that he wants your love and he has learned how to ask for it.

  

  Penelope Leach
  • Human
  • Teach
  • Social

• Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Gods
  • Carries
  • Fellowmen

• 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
  • Soul
  • Effort
  • Etherealize

• 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
  • Moments
  • Robust
  • Feeble

• American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low ideas of womanhood, to make laws for you and your daughters awake to the danger of your present position and demand that woman, too, shall be represented in the government!

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Government
  • Womanhood
  • American Women

• What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.

  

  Aristotle
  • Action
  • Happiness
  • General

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

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Objects
  • Spectators
  • Refinement

• The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Sometimes
  • Natural
  • Accompany

• There is nothing so catching as refinement.

  

  Emily Eden
  • Catching
  • Refinement

• Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • People
  • Education
  • Common

• Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.

  

  Bernard Ingham
  • Gossip
  • Refinement
  • Blood Sport

• 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
  • Character
  • Party
  • Stories

• It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is set upon the whole figure. It is, in every way, perfect--truth itself, but truth selected with inconceivable refinement of feeling.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Truth
  • Lips
  • Refinement

• 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
  • People
  • Morality
  • Refinement

• Doing drugs is like anything else - predicated on taste, refinement, dignity, distinction, and originality. Cocaine is not cool, because it makes people act cartoonishly fiendish, and that is undignified.

  

  Hamilton Morris
  • Dignity
  • Drugs
  • Distinction

• The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Pleasures
  • Pains
  • Refinement