Quotes About Refined Woman

#1. It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew ... I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.

Charlie Chaplin

#2. I believe that I definitely developed into a refined and graceful woman due to ballet. It has shaped me in every way.

Misty Copeland

#3. Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

William E. Gladstone

#4. A refined sort of butcher, a woman is.

John Osborne

#5. Grief had refined her girlish prettiness, she had the clear decided looks of a woman who had seen her hopes destroyed.

Philippa Gregory

#6. Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.

Muriel Barbery

#7. Listening is hard, as my friend once said, because you run the risk of having to change the way you see the world.

Zia Haider Rahman

#8. On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like the gravitation of the globe.

C. A. Bartol

#9. We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.

Deborah Tannen

#10. Once upon a time, the most successful Democratic leader of them all, FDR, looked south and said I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill clad, ill nourished. Today our national Democratic leaders look south and say, I see one third of a nation and it can go to hell.

Zell Miller

#11. Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

Karl Abraham

#12. My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

Oscar Wilde

#13. Life has a habit of making the easy desperately difficult, and the hardest choices so easy as to be no choice at all.

Catherine Sanderson

#14. I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.

Charlotte Bronte

#15. Her every movement transfixed him; she was graceful and refined. She'd become a woman. An elegant woman.

Jan Moran

#16. There are some days where I'll eat 8,000 calories per day, on a day before a 12, 14, 18 hour swim. For a 61-year-old woman, that's a lot! And I try not to eat too much refined sugar - cookies, desserts, those sorts of things.

Diana Nyad

#17. Keep trusting God, He will give you what you need

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that there are other occupations in the world a thousand times more refined, more enriching, for which she is also suited and to which she has a right.

Anais Nin

#19. A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man.

Suzanne Curchod