A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.
James Stockdale
I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.
Pauline Hanson
I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.
Richard Armour
I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.
Marisa Tomei
I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.
Billy Bush
I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.
Paul Walker
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
Bishop Robert South
It feels like it's just starting in America and the UK. It's great to have a loyal fanbase in Australia and New Zealand. People in America say how polished our band are, but that didn't happen overnight; that came from doing all this touring back home.
Kimbra
My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.
Ernst Mach
My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
James Joyce
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund Burke
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
Lord Byron
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
Jean de la Bruyere
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Daniel Defoe
The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
Zebulon Pike
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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