Quotes About Elegance

Standing in the doorway and glancing round me, I had a general impression of extraordinary comfort and elegance combined with an atmosphere of masculine virility.

And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

Because I'd lived through adversity once before, what I learned about myself was like a reminder of something I'd once known but had nearly forgotten-namely, that beneath the elegant clothing, and the accomplished dancing, and the clever conversation, my life had no complexity at all, but was as simple as a stone falling toward the ground. My whole purpose in everything during the past ten years had been to win the affections of the Chairman.

Remember, Chiyo, geisha are not courtesans. And we are not wives. We sell our skills, not our bodies. We create another secret world, a place only of beauty. The very word "geisha" means artist and to be a geisha is to be judged as a moving work of art.

Când Hatsumomo trecea pe lâng? mine pe coridor, în toat? splendoarea ei, cu machiajul alb str?lucind deasupra chimonoului întunecat, ca luna pe cerul palid al nopÈ›ii, sunt sigur? c? È™i un orb ar fi g?sit-o frumoas?.

When a woman walks, she should give the impression of waves rippling over a sandbar.

a ingenuidade se mantém como a indumentária de honra do gênio, assim como a nudez é a da beleza.

She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes.

Ridges of muscle on his stomach rose under his skin like divisions on a slab of chocolate. He held her close by the light of an oil lamp, and he shone as though he had been polished with a high-wax body polish.

A bee died in a coffin flower.

She wasn't beautiful in the way Bombay Silk was, but she was sexier, more intriguing, handsome in the way some women can be.

She speaks the most beautiful Urdu.

She envied the confidence and poise of the women she saw behind the desk.

He seemed as graciously at home as in the best restaurants of the city; his elegance had an odd quality here—it did not insult the place, but seemed to transform it, like the presence of a king who never alters his manner, yet makes a palace of any house he enters.

It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.

There was an air of luxury about the room, but it was the luxury of expert simplicity.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

No insults, please! said Pugg. For I am not your usual uncouth pirate, but refined and with a Ph.D., and therefore extremely high-strung.

then her ladyship, overwhelming in bronze bombazine, regally glided away. Cedric smiled

In his gold-and-white ballroom at 881 Fifth Avenue he held, for years, his famous New Year's Eve parties.

very very pretty green eyes. The kind of green that doesn't make a big deal about itself.

The poet Hesiod says of Eurynome, in a fragment from the eighth century BC: "A marvelous scent rose from her silvern raiment as she moved, and beauty was wafted from her eyes." No one has ever said anything as wonderful as that about me.

simplicity is a matter of taste.

A model is a good model if it: Is elegant Contains few arbitrary or adjustable elements Agrees with and explains all existing observations Makes detailed predictions about future observations that can disprove or falsify the model if they are not borne out. For