Refined Quotes

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.

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.

A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.