Cultured Quotes

The big part of that Victorian era, particularly in Canada, was people being more cultured and not being in the colonies and barbaric. It was all about etiquette and being proper and social graces.

Listen, I’m not a rich kid. I’m a cultured kid; I’m very rich in culture.

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

Even though I am from Jersey, not to put Jersey down, I like Jersey, but I think I’m more cultured.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.

Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.

Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg.

Theater actually took time to pique my interest. It just wasn’t a part of my upbringing. I don’t have anyone in the arts in my family. I wasn’t brought up particularly cultured. It was always TV and film for me.

I was a lot more cultured than the other kids in my high school. Because I traveled, I understood different cultures and had a more worldly view. Most of the people I went to high school with had never been outside of California.

Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don’t really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don’t really have very high, cultured conversations.

I feel like I’m cultured enough to fit into any environment.

On my parents’ scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

You know, I didn’t grow up in a cultured household. We were all highly intelligent, but we were common, simple people. We weren’t activists, none of that.

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

Science, it is said, no doubt has ameliorated the material conditions of human life, but is powerless to solve those moral and philosophical questions that interest cultured people so deeply.

I’m not doing ‘Once’ to prove that I’m worldly or cultured. I just love the role.

Partner dancing is a cultured act.

Ahmedabad is a cultured city with a rich heritage of craft and theatre.

We have to be cultured in our criticism of a tall leader like our Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

What a thing, Europe. Europe! The cultured Europe! We are the barbarians, the Indians, the blacks, the southerners. How cynical is Europe. Chavez the tyrant! Chavez the strongman! Chavez, who wants to stay forever. While there, they have kings, my friend!

I come from a well-educated and cultured, middle-class Maharashtrian family and have been brought up with social awareness.

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

Most high-level models that I’ve ever met are actually well-travelled; they’re cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.

Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child’s pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.

Since pre-Emancipation, black ‘females’ have had to fight for the whites-only privilege of being deemed ‘ladies’: cultured, educated, sexually desirable in a socially respected way. Michelle Obama has managed to get all this without yielding her right to be smart and strong-willed.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

My parents weren’t cultured people.

I’ll always remember Vinod Khanna as a thorough gentleman, cultured, polite, who knew how to conduct himself with the ladies.