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Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
— Edward Abbey
The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined.
— Lars Leksell
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.
— Robert Delaunay
Throwing up was no big deal. It was a lot less painful than hemorrhoids or tooth decay, and more refined than diarrhea
— Haruki Murakami
Adversity refined us like gold.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.
— Madame De Stael
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
— Gaston Bachelard
For a fleeting moment, I wondered how he turned out so untamed, so free, coming from such a refined and wealthy setting.
— Alessia Dickson
The result of these walks on my head is tangible: they refined what I can see.
— Alexandra Horowitz
A man of refined taste and judgment.
— Horace
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.
— Andrew Weil
Write to Inspire. Write to Express. Write to Live.
— The Refined Poet
A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.
— Harry Mulisch
Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.
— Muriel Barbery
Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.
— I.L. Peretz
My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.
— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered.
— Sarah J. Buckley
Men ... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
— Frederick William Robertson
The most refined shedders of blood have been almost always the most highly civilized gentlemen.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If you are drawn to the refined, take up calligraphy or grow a bonsai.
— Laurie A. Helgoe
Eating grapes with a knife and fork is not what one would call refined. It is what one would call ludicrous.
— Judith Martin
Success is a refined study of the obvious
— Jim Rohn
Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.
— Lord Chesterfield
Down deep in His innermost soul Christ carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
You pay a whore to make you feel like a man, you fund a philharmonic to make yourself feel like a refined man.
— Sam Lipsyte
I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.
— John Evelyn
A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.
— Anonymous
Over the course of those 12 episodes we discarded what didn't work and kept what did and that refined it.
— Dave Rowntree
I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.
— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
— D.H. Lawrence
Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.
— Brigham Young
Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined.
— Susanna Centlivre
True creativity does not come easily; creativity is born of risk and refined from failure.
— Erwin Raphael McManus
Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man.
— Edmundo Desnoes
I think,' said Raja Rao, 'unrestrained urge is promiscuity while passion refined is romanticism.
— BS Murthy
The worst drug of today is not smack or pot - it's refined sugar.
— George Hamilton
The more polished a diamond the more valuable it is;the more tested a man the more refined he is. — Matshona Dhliwayo
In the furnace of affliction, we are refined and purified.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In the midst of the storm, your life boat appears. A psalm, a hymn, a word ... calming the fiercest winds of the soul.
— The Refined Poet
I believe that I definitely developed into a refined and graceful woman due to ballet. It has shaped me in every way.
— Misty Copeland
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
— Arthur Balfour
In the past, it was known as a "massive stroke," and you simply died. But improved resuscitation techniques have now prolonged and refined the agony.
— Jean-Dominique Bauby
The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
It is neither wise nor honest to detract from beauty as a quality. There cannot be a refined soul insensible to its influence.
— Lew Wallace
May be refined, and join the angelic train.
— Phillis Wheatley
He ... preferred always the more to the less remote, what, seeming exceptional, was an instance of law more refined ...
— Walter Pater
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
I hurtled down a path through the middle of a park, past shrubbery so refined it was probably entitled to vote.
— Michael Marshall Smith
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily ... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
— William Shakespeare
He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.
— Christopher Wren
We are refined like gold, with every adversity endured.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.
— Samuel Johnson
Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
— Beatrice Wood
If you go through the hot furnace of hardships, you will be refined like gold.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Writing is refined thinking.
— Stephen King
Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.
— Vivian Mercier
A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.
— Terry Orlick
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
— Laurence Sterne
A refined sort of butcher, a woman is.
— John Osborne
A vision is not a static picture but a process that gets refined over time
— Marjan Van Den Belt
It is interesting to me how technology has in many ways facilitated and refined the practice of deception
— Suzanne Rindell
Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.
— Leonard Cohen
It's impossible to be refined when we don't know how to listen.
— Samael Aun Weor
Values are shaped and refined by rubbing against real problems, and people interpret their problems according to the values they hold.
— Ronald A. Heifetz
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
— Anton Chekhov
Grief had refined her girlish prettiness, she had the clear decided looks of a woman who had seen her hopes destroyed.
— Philippa Gregory
I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
— Edmund White
Culture has little to do with how refined a man's intellect is; it rather depends on the refinement of his emotions.
— Raheel Farooq
It was all conveyed by the nicest, almost indetectably refined blend of sympathy and bitchiness ...
— John Wyndham
Will is developed in meditation. It is refined. It is within you, but you don't know how to get to it.
— Frederick Lenz
It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.
— William Empson
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
— Jonathan Edwards
We're victims of our own refined tastes.
— Brent Weeks
In the furnace of fire, gold and silver are refined.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Adversity refined a man like gold.
— Lailah Gifty Akita