“ Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle. ”
- Norman Mailer- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. ”
- Christopher Hampton- Copy
- 733
“ Hes not a raw kind of talent. Hes got some sophistication to his basketball game, and I think he will progress quickly. ”
- Kareem Abdul Jabbar- Copy
- 3.3K
“ You talk too sophisticated for me. I don't understand. ”
- Seve Ballesteros- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige ”
- James Thurber- Copy
- 893
“ There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake. ”
- Bill Conti- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. ”
- Henry James- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Italian wine was something rough and red that came in a straw-covered flask with a candle stuck in its neck, the empty bottle was an unmistakable badge of sophomore sophistication. ”
- Nancy Harmon Jenkins- Copy
- 2.4K
“ There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe. ”
- Don Herold- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
- 1.4K
“ It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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