Quotes About Elegance

Fashion is one thing, but style is another.

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

My aesthetic is pretty classic. I like to keep things simple but appreciate the details.

There is a beauty and clarity that comes from simplicity that we sometimes do not appreciate in our thirst for intricate solutions.

It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.

I've been identified with James Bond or Thomas Crown for so long; suave, elegant, sophisticated men in suits. it's like you've been giving the same performance for 20 years.

For a thoroughbred to age is never a graceful process.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

I'm not huge on accessories, though I love sunglasses.

I've often been accused of dressing too well. I've always been fascinated by fashion, though I don't think I'm particularly fashionable.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

After all, no matter how elegant the script or how beautiful the illuminations and bindings, the pages had been made from the hides of dead beasts.

Sprezzatura is a style of elegant nonchalance.

Mrs. Gley came down in a rush. She had on a kind of tea gown whose draperies flew out behind her, like the tail of a blowzy comet.

Miss Seeley came in.... She was a little older, a little thinner. Her tailored pinstriped suit emphasized the boniness of her figure. But she still wore hopeful white ruffles at her wrists and throat.

The Kennedy organization doesn't run, it purrs.

La elegancia no consiste en el exceso de adornos, ni en la profusión de alhajas.

Good taste is always an asset.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.