Quotes About Elegance

You've never in your life seen a horse run like this! He's all power - all beauty.

Steve Strange: I ran a very tight ship in terms of my door policy. I wanted creative-minded pioneers there who looked like a walking piece of art, not some drunken, beery lads. The best move I made was turning Mick Jagger away at the door. He was wearing trainers.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour.

Things that are indelicate can sometimes be beautiful.

And it is because they seem so natural that they are so beautiful.

You wanted hearts and flowers," he murmurs. I blink at him, not quite believing what I'm seeing. You have my heart." And he waves toward the room. And here are the flowers," I whisper, completing his sentence. Christian, it's lovely.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

One was tired of everything, it seemed. One launched into enthusiasms only to collapse gracefully, and pick oneself up amid sympathetic laughter.

Beautiful?" said Miss Bartlett, puzzled at the word. "Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

yet, have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time—beautiful?" "Beautiful?" said Miss Bartlett, puzzled at the word. "Are not beauty and delicacy the same?" "So one would have thought," said the other helplessly. "But things are so difficult, I sometimes think.

He looked at her as she stood by the pool's edge. She was got up smart, as she phrased it, and she reminded him of some brilliant flower that has no leaves of its own, but blooms abruptly out of a world of green.

yet, have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time—beautiful?

Simplicity – the art of maximizing the amount of work not done – is essential.

You are as beautiful as waterfall.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

It was Beauty. As always. Beauty killed him.

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady.

a designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes

Aunt Sarah's still smooth, unwrinkled, youthful looking face, made more charming by being framed in waves of silvery gray hair, on which the "Hand of Time," in passing, had sprinkled some of the dust from the road of life.

Everything about her was at once vigorous and exquisite, at once strong and fine. He had a confused sense that she must have cost a great deal to make, that a great many dull and ugly people must, in some mysterious way, have been sacrificed to produce her.

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of eye and mind for symmetry, harmony, and order.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.