Quotes About Elegance

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

I think there is an extreme charm in the French, and actually it's their bolshiness that makes them such fun.

I think French women tend to keep it simple. I'd say try the less-is-more approach, which is not always easy to get right.

Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.

Just Cavalli for Her is a flowery and sexy fragrance. I like its freshness and feminine scent.

Fashion is not frivolous.

I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.

Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.

Personally, my interest in social history ends around 1959, by which time I was an adolescent. I've always attributed this to my particular sensibilities. I like formality and elegance, and I'm fundamentally conservative.

Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.

Fair fresh leaves, and buds—and buds—tiny at first but swelling and working Magic until they burst and uncurled into cups of scent delicately spilling themselves over their brims and filling the garden air.

That must have been a ballroom once," she said, as she glanced back at the conference–cum–dining room. For an instant she could imagine it: Women dressed like Anna Karenina. Hussars and diplomats. Candlelight softening the lines on their faces. "And this used to be a garden," Michael added. "Like Stalin's world used to be Russia. It's only going to get drabber.

Physically she was like a swan among more humble fowl – tall, willowy, and exceptionally pretty with fair skin and golden hair, whereas the Chardins were plain and dark, stocky and short.

the floor was expensive cream-colored travertine

Le quattro: i piedini che muovevano al suono della musica, il viso distinto nella folla, il cavaliere felice come un cagnolino vezzeggiato e pazzo come l'eterno cappellaio…

La pelouse partait de la plage et grimpait sur cinq cents mètres jusqu'à la porte d'entrée, enjambait des cadrans solaires, des sentiers pavés de briques et des jardins flamboyants, atteignait enfin la maison et se brisait contre ses murs, dans une explosion de vigne vierge, comme emportée par son élan

Même l'élégance efféminée de sa tenue d'équitation ne parvenait pas à dissimuler l'énorme puissance de ce corps

there might be a certain fastidious courtesy in dying without a trace

At the Baron's elbow walked Feyd-Rautha. His dark hair was dressed in close ringlets that seemed incongruously gay above sullen eyes. He wore a tight-fitting black tunic and snug trousers with a suggestion of bell at the bottom. Soft-soled slippers covered his small feet.

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disks of ambient color tossed on an emerald freshet.

Less is more only when more is too much.

1. An honest ego in a healthy body 2. An eye to see nature 3. A heart to feel nature 4. Courage to follow nature 5. A sense of proportion (humor) 6. Appreciation of work as idea and idea as work 7. Fertility of imagination 8. Capacity for faith and rebellion 9. Disregard for commonplace (inorganic) elegance 10. Instinctive cooperation

I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.