I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Society is now one polished horde formed of two mighty tries the Bores and Bored.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
We love a good hyped sound but when it starts to sound insincere that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music even if it sounds polished doesn't sound insincere.
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.
I went to England in the '70s and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.