Quotes About Elegance

Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.

She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate over the smallest movement of her body.

She look like she ain't long for this world but dressed well for the next.

She look so stylish it like the trees all round the house draw themself up tall for a better look.

Do I think if something's beautiful, it's perfect? I guess you could say that. If I'm in a rapture of beauty, it's perfect to me.

Frank Sinatra on the sound system. "Fly Me to the Moon.

Pon my sivvy, Miss Lambert! Aren't you quite the dandyzette today? Fit to knock a feller oolter-poolter on his beam ends!

You are as wise as you are beautiful, Thorn Bathu.

To leave behind what is considered normal amidst social convention and to create a new mind requires being an individual—for any species. Being uncompromising to one's vision of a new and improved self and abandoning one's prior ways of being may also be encoded in living tissue for new generations; history remembers individuals for such elegance. True evolution, then, is using the genetic wisdom of past experiences as raw materials for new challenges. What

Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.

Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.

Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn't have to be expensive. Simple but with good taste. Luxury is possible to buy. Good taste is not.

I'd rather have flowers in my hair, than diamonds around my neck.

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it, you're nobody.

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.

Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.