Quotes About Elegance

She was everything he'd ever wanted in a woman, and nothing he'd ever thought to find in a lady.

She's elegant," Olivia stated. "I would kill to have her figure." "Really?" "Of course. I have always wished to look precisely like her. Though obviously, not enough to avoid food," she added. "That's madness. You have everything she doesn't." Olivia opened her mouth, ready to argue. "Everything she hasn't." She frowned at him. "Including me.

All the buildings lining rue de Conservatoire are constructed of cream marble or limestone. When I went outside today, the sky was pale and fierce, on the very cusp of rain. From the top of the church and the conservatory, the contrast was almost imperceptible, as if marble and air danced cheek to cheek.

She rose with the grace that was inherent to her every move ... Perhaps she did everything to a rhythm only she could hear.

The Earl of Mayne's kisses would never be called objectionable. They were so sophisticated and sleek, persuasive and delicate, that Helene didn't mind them - much. It was just that she really wanted to get back to Rees. She had a thought about the score he had given her. "I must go," she said, pulling back. And then added, "alas.

Theo shook out the half square of heavy silk. "It will make all the difference to this insipid gown." With one sharp wrench she pulled out the lace fichu tucked into her bodice and replaced it with the scarf. It flashed raspberry red against the almond-colored muslin of her gown.

chaise longue and slowly pulled on a stocking. Her body twinged

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

I'm going to make everything around me beautiful—that will be my life.

It was a real party of swells.

I don't do any vulgar movements.

Just then, down through the last glimmer of twilight, stepping high and free, like a cloud, a moth, a ghost in the shape of a horse — came the Silver Stallion. Wild, beautiful, and free as the wind he came, from one kingdom to another, Thowra

A long shaft of light came down from the sun behind the clouds and fell on the rearing, striking horses so that Thowra was the glittering foam on a waterfall, was quicksilver held for a dazzling moment in the shape of a horse, but a horse that was never still

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

El arte de amar ? Saber unir el temperamento de un vampiro y la discreción de una anémona.

Overrun on every side, stoicism, faithful to its principles, had the elegance to die without a struggle.

Gracious living is felt whether it is created in small or big ways.

L'Incorruttibile, severo nel suo portamento, elegante nel suo vestire, non prese mai parte a una dimostrazione né si confuse mai con i cittadini comuni adottandone lo stile e i simboli.

Era una bellissima fanciulla, di quindici o sedici anni, alta e flessibile come un giunco, dalla pelle pallidissima, quasi alabastrina, con la tinta che ricordava suo padre il Corsaro Nero; aveva due occhi grandi, d'un nero intenso, e lunghe ciglia che lasciavano cadere sul viso la loro ombra. I suo capelli, neri come l'ala di un corvo, li teneva sciolti sulle spalle, legati solamente presso la nuca da una piccola fila di perle.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.

The music of the Opera enchants me; and whilst my soul is plunged in divine pleasure, I am the centre of admiration and the focus of all the opera-glasses. But a single glance will make the boldest youth drop his eyes.

It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.

You have the nicest window, you know? None of the others can even compete. It´s not flashy like the others, or bleary – your window gives of this nice, quiet light.