Quotes About Elegance

A graceful person gets things done, but does it in a way you'd be happy to have repeated.

Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful

The seam of the stocking along the end of her right

The Indian vessels, a contemporary British observer wrote, 'united elegance and utility and are models of patience [sic] and fine workmanship.' Indian workers were considered expert in all shipbuilding materials—wood, iron and brass

All my life I've pursued the perfect red.

Simplicity is always a virtue.

My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.

Versace was and still is about the sophisticated woman who is elegant, not afraid of her own sensuality, and not afraid to dare or take risks in life.

I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film [Dream of Life]; it gives the film a certain elegance.

I personally do not think that I have ever done, in my working life, anything vulgar. I know I've done provocative things.

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.

It's really about putting that sort of quality and beauty back into our life.

I believe in a glamorous life, and I live a glamorous life.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base — in both senses — greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.

and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence...

I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?

Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty.

She looked radiant in her shimmering white dress, itself a daring and unconventional choice

Formality may seem stuffy but it provides fresh air and freedom

la plus belle des savants, la plus savante des belles

Ya nunca volvería a moverse con gracia y elegancia al compás de una música que solo él oía.

We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us—and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.