Refined Quotes
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I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.
Charlotte Bronte
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Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.
I. L. Peretz
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Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
Nikolai Gogol
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...now as we induldge, in things refined,we hide our hearts, from harder times...
Billy Joel
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Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
John Bevere
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An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.
Jonathan Swift
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I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens; it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter.
William Albert Allard
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It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.
William Empson
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Like the intense fire that transforms iron into steel, as we remain faithful during the fiery trial of our faith, we are spiritually refined and strengthened.
Neil L. Andersen
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It was so beautiful. Such extraordinary colors, classical, and refined and very structured as well. A superb collection.
Catherine Deneuve
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The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.
Evelyn Glennie