Quotes About Elegance

Lucy, you look delightful," he said. "George, you'll have to do. Oh, here's something for you, Luce. Might go well with that excellent dress." He took my hand and placed in it a necklace of pretty silver links, with a small diamond suspended as a pendant. It was really very beautiful. "What?" I stared at it. "Where'd you get this?" "Just something I had. I suggest you close your mouth when you wear it-it's more elegant that way.

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy and Serenity.

Who does not dislike a "boneless" hand extended as though it were a spray of sea-weed, or a miniature boiled pudding?

When you design, solve things in the simplest way possible. Your goal should be simplicity, not 'How can I apply a pattern to this problem.

Mrs. Darling to May Pentecost who showed Mrs. Darling her room: "I shall unpack my china in here, if your husband will be kind enough to bring it up. I do think it's important to be surrounded by pretty things, don't you?

Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.

Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.

The plainest row of books that cloth or paper ever covered is more significant of refinement than the most elaborately carved furniture.

I never drink... wine.

The way you look tonight. In that dress. Jesus, Brooke, you're beautiful.

One Hyde Park squatted next to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel like a stack of office furniture, and with all the elegance and charm of the inside of a photocopier. Albeit a brand new photocopier that doubled as a fax and document scanner.

her hair was piled up under a broad-brimmed

five story Georgian terrace whose elegant proportions would have caused the most hardened Canadian property developer's soul to weep to see such beauty—just prior to having the place gutted and filled with the latest in personality-free interior design.

Her garments borrowed grace from her.

Still to be neat, still to be drest,As you were going to a feast.

Sweet Swan of Avon!

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.

I recall Lina as extremely intelligent, with refined European tastes.

Properly cared for, a Savile Row suit can be handed down the generations—like gout.

In a world of travail and cheap wine the ridiculous becomes sublime

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

The women, too, exhibit a high level of grace, intelligence, strength, and beauty.

Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.