Quotes About Elegance

He glittered when he walked.

A beautiful character's beauty beautifies life.

The flowery character waves perfume in tone and pours sweetness in speech.

Opening her handbag, she took out a small bottle of perfume and touched the stopper behind her ears. Its cool, glassy edge felt like her only point of contact with tangible reality.

A real lady wears a cloth coat as if it were her best mink, and tosses her mink about as if it were cloth.

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Reality can't stay inside the elegant moulds of art; it always spills over, indecorously.

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

Come to a rousing end. End in style, with flair or a flourish.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

Strangeness is the form taken by beauty when beauty has no hope.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.

When a man spends the least possible number of movements over one definite action, that is grace.

People should be beautiful in every way—in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts and in their innermost selves.

He'd forgotten the sensation of novely, the thrill of desiring a woman so intensely it was pure magnetism of her female presence that made him tremble, more than her physical beauty or the slightly exotic elegance of her dress or the spontaneity with which she had leaned on his arm, holding it tighter when a speeding care passed close to them

A man who relentlessly perspires to do excellence evidently inspires many with his intelligence and elegance."

Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out.

Beauty unadorned.

She had a quality he had never known- she WAS quality.

I applaud the needlessly beautiful in all things.