Quotes About Elegance

Her face was her chaperone.

Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.

a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.

The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.

That is what makes us love beautiful things: they have a perennial appeal, and hearing about them a second and third time can be even better than the first. The first time you hear it but not all of it. When you hear it again you savor every detail. Thus, when Avraham David spoke about our Master, the distinguished Av Beit Din, he would go on and on about things we already knew, but both the speaker and the listener felt as if they were only now hearing the real gist of it for the first time.

She was a French rose growing wild amid the hothouse flowers of London.

I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing ladies' hands — after all, one must start somewhere.

The cohesiveness and beauty that intelligence lends to the face—that's what the body needs. But it should come without effort.

The solution is as elegant as it is efficient: Define the right outcomes and then let each person find his own route toward those outcomes.

for in history there is nothing more pleasing than clear and brilliant brevity.

She's beautiful. In the way she is.

People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.

I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used to wear at some period during the old days: hats like enormous halos, festooned with fruit and flowers, and the feathers of exotic birds; hats like an idea of paradise, floating just above the head, a thought solidified.

Here are the tulips, budded and full-blown, their swoops and dips, their gloss and poses, the satin of their darks.

The line of her cheek has a marble, a classic, a simplicity; to look at her is to believe that suffering does indeed purify.

Single strand of pearls, wild, not cultured. (Worth it, she said: only the wild ones had souls.)

Whether you are classically beautiful or not, this one thing I know: you give the impression of being beautiful, which is all one can ask. The jewels become you, they do not belittle you.

To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

You look like you'd swallowed a ramrod and it isn't becoming-Rhett Butler

Yes, life has a glitter now-of a sort. That's what's wrong with it. The old days had no glitter but they had a charm, a beauty, a slow-paced glamour.

How wonderful it would be never to marry but to go on being lovely in pale green dresses and forever courted by handsome men.

beautiful as a woman is beautiful who is so sure of her charm that she can be generous and gracious to all.