Quotes About Elegance

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Every natural action is graceful.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

The sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.

Beauty is its own excuse for being.

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and monring dew

The girl's face was there, really quite beautiful in memory: astonishing, in fact. She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of a night when you waken to see the time and see the clock telling you the hour and the minute and the second, with a white silence and a glowing, all certainty and knowing what it has to tell of the night passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.

Anything that's strange is no good to the average American." i think this quote means that pickles do not go on barbecue steaks. i agree with it because it represents Americans "He built an architecture of Bach, stone by exquisite stone, raising a music cathedral so vast." i think that this quote means that something can be built so elegantly. i disagree because there are always problems.

The beauty of the loved woman exists in the beauties of Nature.

He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality which excites and escapes.

Era o femeie zvelt?, într-o rochie neagr? din m?tase. O frunte înalt?, tr?s?turi regulate È™i buzele delicat conturate st?teau m?rturie frumuseÈ›ii ei trecute. ?edea dreapt? într-un jilÈ›... Mâinile subÈ›iri îi z?ceau în poal?, imobilitatea ei facial? avea ceva monahal.

pisica z?cea în braÈ›ele ei într-o aristocrat? beatitudine È™i meditativ? ca un sfinx.

Consider the contrast between the well-bred

He glanced at me, then chuckled. "Sprezzatura's an Italian word. Means the art of making something difficult look easy.

She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.

The food was elegant and expensive, and the aisles were overflowing with great streams of flushed and merry proprietors, all stout and balding.

a lifelong disciple of Lord Chesterfield's maxim that a gentleman was free to do anything he pleased as long as he did it with style.

I had come this far without the elegance of speech. ... I could not speak coherently. I stuttered in my mind. I could not express my perception of the sacred. I could speak everyday language: Please pass the salt. I would like . . . When are we going . . . I'll meet you there. I wanted the intricate and metaphorical language of my ancestors to pass through my language, my life.

the swans are beautiful like figures in a dream, that seem to represent something for which there are no adequate words.

It had seemed to me an elegant nightmare concoction made by adults for adults, to further the aims and fantasies of adults, and what have children to do with such things?

Ni siquiera la lluvia baila tan descalza.

I thought you were the loveliest, most enchanting creature God ever created.

It's easy to be clever. But the really clever thing is to be simple.

All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.