Quotes About Being Cultured

#1. There are only two ways, as you know, of becoming civilized. One is by being cultured, the other is by being corrupt.

Oscar Wilde

#2. Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.

Rich Mullins

#3. Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

Oscar Wilde

#4. Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.

Mason Cooley

#5. In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.

Orhan Pamuk

#6. The guidance of a cultured human being will always beat the click of a mouse.

Elliot Perlman

#7. There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than
one rooted in pavements.

Aldo Leopold

#8. People in general misunderstand me. I'm very aware of the stereotype that comes with being a basketball player. But I'm well-rounded. I'm cultured. It's funny: When I speak, people are like, "Wow! You can really talk." I'm like, "What did you expect?"

Chris Bosh

#9. Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#10. I'm sure every film it's going to be like, 'Okay, this is the scene where your shirt gets ripped off.' I'll never be able to keep my shirt on.

Alex Meraz

#11. Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace.

Benito Juarez

#12. Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic. He is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier and yet adamantly saner, than the average person.

Frank X. Barron

#13. It paid to be cultured, just as long as you didn't start growing bacteria.

Michael Lee West

#14. All I ever think about is food or sex.

Rachel Cohn

#15. Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich.

Charles Saatchi