Quotes About Elegance

I likened her to the slender PSYCHÉ and judged that the perfection of her face ennobled everything unclean around her: The dusty hems of her bunched-up skirt, the worn straps of her nightshirt; the blackened soles of her bare feet [...] All this and the pungent air! Ô this night, sweet pungent night! "HÉBÉ" may come but a season. But this girl's season would know a hot spring and an Indian summer.

Death is a thing of beauty, but equally a destroyer of beauty. That is the paradox that we are left with.

She walks in beauty.

Twirling her sunshade with short, sharp twirls that implied the click of a revolver.

Her voice harkening to the period of her heels -- Louis XV.

Life, after all, seemed less raw after a glass of champagne.

Those eyes that hold the hand of every heart, Those hands that hold the heart of every eye, That eye, that hand, that wit, that heavenly sense, All these do show my mistresses' excellence.

They dance together in a line, murmuring in swift, low voices, smiling carefully as they are too proud to give away their beauty. They are light steppers with a gravity of sure grace.

She was a woman of reserve.

Susannah set the table with Provençal cotton linens, the tablecloth pale pumpkin and the napkins printed with faded red and purple flowers, her throat caught. She had wanted to make this meal so special for Sari and Grey. She set out silverware, bright crockery, a Lucite peppermill and a blue container of Fleur-de-Sel de Camargue. She still had Grey's black scallop shells and she arranged them in the center of the table, around a vase of colorful wildflowers.

That's a lovely idea, Diana," said Anne enthusiastically. "Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. Thank you, Diana.

Vivir para embellecer el nombre, aunque no sea tan hermoso en sí mismo y hacerlo, resaltar en la mente de las gentes como algo bello y placentero en lo cual nunca pensarían.

There was a solid air about him as he walked through the pandemonium of the plant in his conservative gray suits. The thin veins on his massive cheeks were like the engraving on gilt-edged securities.

Roses denote grace.

The unlit chandelier loomed over us, a dim glass jellyfish in the dark reaches of the ceiling. Candles sputtered on the table.

As we shall see, the tractable apostrophe has always done its proper jobs in our language with enthusiasm and elegance, but it has never been taken seriously enough; its talent for adaptability has been cruelly taken for granted; and now, in an age of supreme graphic frivolity, we pay the price.

Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.

Donna. Miniatures

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests

A confident woman wears a smile and has this air of comfortability and pleasantness about her.

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy and Serenity.

Her hair, long, black and flowing, was her great asset, and she liked to wear it over her shoulders

Around her hair there was a saffron aureole, and her skin was a sea shell...