Refinement Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “Women lose their delicacy and refinement, when they are compelled night and day to haggle with their destiny over things pitifully small, and for this they are blamed by those whom their toil supports.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Women, Struggle, Societal Expectations, Refinement, Labor And Dignity

2. “What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?”

John Milton

Feast, Refinement, Greek Culture, Intellectual Pleasure, Companionship

3. “Indifference to all the refinements of life – it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.”

Aldous Huxley

Indifference, Refinement, Calvinism, Theology, Cultural Critique, Philosophical Observation

4. “Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.”

E.M. Forster

Despised World, Thoughtful Man, Refinement, Should, Test, World

5. “A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife.”

Sylvia Plath

Perfection, Isolation, Introspection, Strength, Self-discovery, Refinement

6. “On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian’s bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise And wary heads, made rare by art’s refining.”

Robert Greene

Natural Beauty, Poetic Expression, Artistic Refinement, Beauty, Expression, Refinement

7. “The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.”

Salvador Dali

Wine Secrets, Connoisseur Wisdom, Wine, Secrets, Taste, Refinement

8. “In the end things must be as they are and have always been – the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Greatness, Profundity, Refinement, Rarity, Existence

9. “The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Human Nature, Refinement, Instinct, Appearance, Depth

10. “True refinement seeks simplicity.”

Bruce Lee

Refinement, Simplicity, Philosophy, Beauty, Clarity

11. “The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”

Albert Einstein

Science, Thinking, Refinement, Wisdom, Knowledge

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