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Quotes About Elegance

Qui plus est, le bonheur est minimaliste. Il est simple et dépouillé. C'est un presque rien qui fait tout.
~ Rosa Montero
have nothing in your house that you don't know to be useful nor think to be beautiful.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
Crusty brown bread, butter, and a pot of pâté de foie gras; chicken Kiev, and the makings of a salad. Olive oil, fresh peaches, cheeses; a bottle of Scotch, a couple of bottles of wine. She bought flowers, an armful of daffodils
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
well-to-do, well-groomed, well-bred, and
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
you're like the leader of a big brass band made up of all the jazzy stuff of the planet, and you're floating out there in space, standing on this great garbage heap of a world, with your hair slicked back and your natty suit and your stick up in the air, surrounded by all the eager things, and for one quick, beautiful moment, all their voices go silent, waiting till you bring your baton down. Music or madness. It's totally up to you.
~ Ruth Ozeki
hair, oiled and satiny
~ Ruth Rendell
I'm a very feminine man. I like feminine things. I don't go to strip clubs. I don't drink beer. I don't play sports.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
True delicacy is not a fragile thing.
~ James Broughton
Delicacy in woman is strength.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
~ John Dryden
Krasivaya. It means beautiful, but with strength. Unique.
~ Ruta Sepetys
I love a loose-fitting skirt with a cinched waist. A feminine silhouette is a no-stress zone - it's comfortable and I don't have to worry about wardrobe malfunctions!
~ Eva Mendes
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
Good taste is synonymous with success in all fields of life. It's not a question of money, but of a trained eye.
~ Letitia Baldrige
If crowns were only for the most beautiful and intelligent heads, Mercedès would be a queen now.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Speak on, madame, speak on, Queen, said Buckingham; the sweetness of your voice covers the harshness of your words.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Lale tüm çiçekler içinde en güzelidir.
~ Alexandre Dumas
o encanto indefinido que está para a mulher como o perfume está para a flor e o sabor para o fruto. Porque não basta uma flor ser bela, nem um fruto ser agradável à vista
~ Alexandre Dumas
azuré.Le yacht avançait rapidement, quoique en apparence il y eût à peine assez de vent pour faire flotter la chevelure bouclée d'une jeune fille.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Comme tous les grands seigneurs de cette époque, il montait à cheval et faisait des armes dans la perfection.
~ Alexandre Dumas
There was the taste of a strand of cool pearls in his mouth
~ Alfred Bester
It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.
~ Alice Hoffman
There wasn't a tear to be seen on the faces of the men and women in the street as the two of them walked down to Schrafft's. Only him, again, leaning by the door, suit jacket and fedora, the sunlight striking gold, the leg he had favored bent back and pressed against the building. He was smoking a cigarette. He was the handsomest man on the block. He was waiting for her.
~ Alice McDermott
She pushed open the door to the restaurant. More lunchtime bustle, mostly women in hats with their coats thrown over the backs of chairs, the satiny linings and the fur collars and cuffs, the perfume and the elegant curves of the women's backs as they leaned forward across the small tables, all giving the hint of a boudoir to the busy place. She
~ Alice McDermott