Quotes About Elegance

The true lady treats the whole world as her dance floor,

Mum" for beautiful and "taz" for royal.

Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

You have in your hand the Pearl of the Universe. The Paragon of Pearls. The great Pearl of Heaven!

She was thirty-eight years old and cut like marble. Defined, but not obscenely muscular. Sexy, but not grotesque.

I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.

The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)

I have my 1973 Citroen DS 23 Pallas. I drive it all the time. It's still the most beautiful shape in the world.

He carefully maintained the blasé air of one who had been here before and had been incredibly well dressed that time too

Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a rhythm to it, a beckoning, and a bittersweet tear in time.

I do wear suits all the time.

Yes, I love white, and I'd wear it all the time if I could. Some people think I have an issue with cleanliness, but to me it's just so pretty.

I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.

I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love. If I had a time machine, I would be hanging out with him.

I don't wear dresses all the time - it's nice to save those moments for certain occasions and to make it feel extra special.

You can't be stylish and petty at the same time.

You soon learn there's no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and how good it tastes.

and every lady's rose-leafy dress flapping soft and silky around her hips, and she looking like the most loveliest parasol.

Cuando llegaban es como si hubiese llegado el señor del universo, aportando con él todas las magnificencias de los reinos del mismo; y cuando se marchaban, dejaban tras ellos un sosiego que se parecía mucho al sueño profundo que se produce después de una orgía.

I preferred one waltz with a beauty to a lifetime with someone less rare.

What! your wisdom thinks I must love the man I'm going to marry? The most unpleasant thing in the world. I should quarrel with him; I should be jealous of him; our menage would be conducted in a very ill-bred manner. A little quiet contempt contributes greatly to the elegance of life. (The Lifted Veil)

Sometimes sexuality was more compelling when it was not overt.

It was my first visit to the scene of the crime--a high, dingy, narrow-chested house, prim, formal, and solid, like the century which gave it birth.