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Refined Quotes

May be refined, and join the angelic train.

May be refined, and join the angelic train.

Phillis Wheatley (2012). “The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir”, p.4, Courier Corporation

Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

"Taanis Gedanken". Alle Verk, xii. 77, 1896.

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

Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.265, Pan Macmillan

How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.

Nikolai Gogol (2011). “The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.397, Vintage

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.4, Courier Corporation

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.

William Empson (2000). “The complete poems”, Lane, Allen

All recurring joy is pain refined.

Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.71, ReadHowYouWant.com