Quotes About Elegance

As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.

Being charming takes time and effort, and I am busy.

All any girl needs, at any time in history, is simple velvet and basic diamonds.

I really like the retro look. My regular clothing, I like to always keep it classy and I like to kind of be more dressed up more of the time. I'm not really someone you see in sweatpants a lot.

I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.

The red carpet is a beautiful situation for people. I think everybody appreciates it and loves it and honors it. Nobody really acts a fool because they know this is a one-time thing.

I like Stella McCartney, Chloe, Alexander McQueen, Aaron Featherstone, normal Chanel if I can ever afford it, I'd be wearing that all the time! I like to admire from afar.

A kaiseki meal is like that, very small courses over a long period of time.

Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking

Fashion is what time looks like.

Figure skating is a bit dated - it's like that tweed jacket you pull out of the back of your closet from time to time, and I'm going to try to Chanel it up a little bit.

Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!

You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.

I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny.

A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet.

good cotton, riding well, shooting straight, dancing lightly, squiring the ladies with elegance and carrying one's liquor like a gentleman were the things that mattered.

Because he doesn't know he carries within him a supreme elegance, I say it for him.

Quel bel levriero... si distese sulla mia vita (Memorie di Adriano, Saeculum Aureum)

Il n'était ambitieux qu'avec nonchalance ; il était exigeant sans être avide, ayant de tout temps l'habitude de tout obtenir.

Contam cu disperare pe eternitatea pitrei, pe fidelitatea bronzului în dorinÈ›a de a perpetua un corp perisabil, ori deja distrus, insistând totodat? ca marmura, uns? zilnic cu un amestec de ulei È™i acizi, s? prind? fineÈ›e È™i aproape moliciunea c?rnii tinere.

Elle [Catherine de Mainau] avait, dit-on, inspiré des passions très vives ; elle en avait ressenti ; elle avait eu des peines, qu'elle n'avais pas longtemps portées. Il en était de ses chagrins, je suppose, comme de ses robes de bal, qu'elle ne mettait qu'une fois. Mais elle les gardait toutes ; elle avait, ainsi, des armoires de souvenirs. Vous disiez, mon amie, que la princesse Catherine avait une âme de dentelle. (p. 86-87)

Superior people never make long visits.

And indeed she did not. I thought she had a tired, dragged appearance, but I would not say so. I knew her well, and I was perfectly aware that though she was fascinating and elegant in every way, her life was too much engrossed in trifles ever to yield her healthy satisfaction.

Your mother asked him if he would like to say grace, and he did, with an elegant simplicity that seemed almost wasted on macaroni and cheese.