Quotes by Refinement Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity. Charlotte Mary Yonge refinement aroma christianity There is nothing so catching as refinement. Emily Eden refinement catching Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. Francois de La Rochefoucauld refinement comparison delicacy A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement. Henry Theodore Tuckerman refinement admirable travel The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising. Friedrich Nietzsche refinement sickness sick Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout Horace refinement environment force It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness. Lawrence Durrell refinement achieve real A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense. Lord Byron refinement salt expenses 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 refinement selfish busybodies All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship. Marcus Tullius Cicero refinement mutual art Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants. Robert Andrews Millikan refinement want civilization That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners. Samuel Taylor Coleridge refinement strengthening manners 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. Thomas de Quincey refinement elegance habit 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. Tony Fadell refinement ipods week Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object. William Hazlitt refinement spectators beauty-everywhere