Quotes About Elegance

A palm-leaf carriage should move slowly, or else it loses its dignity.

Things That Give a Clean Feeling An earthen cup. A new metal bowl. A rush mat. The play of the light on water as one pours it into a vessel. A new wooden chest.

Almighty God created a dancer as a reflection of artistry in motion

The shiny, varnished seating,

I confess, as much as I enjoyed you in breeches, you hold up that gown rather well." "You truly have stopped tying to be charming." "You're the most ravishing creature in the world, sweet Rue, even when hidden behind feathers and beads. How was that?

You saw my leg?" "How can a man help what he sees?" he said. "And, if I could add, you possess a very fine leg.

She wore white heirloom lace about her throat And in her hair a bright golden feather A pearl like a plum hung ripe from her neck But her smile fetched ten gold together

Jane looked at everything, smiling at the amusement park novelty of it all. She looked at Mr. Nobley. He was beaming at her. At last. "You are stunning," he said, and every inch of him seemed to swear that it was true. "Oh," she said. He kissed her gloved fingers. He was still smiling. There was something different about him tonight, and she couldn't place what it was.

One of my favorite quotes is: "... If I strike you it ain't going to be in your fancy.

You are the single most beautiful thing I have ever looked at in my life.

Along the runway, wind poured through the coat of horsetail fur, and terns, in their skirts, fluttered above the thumbnail and crochet-hook snails, and we knock-swashed up, excreting fumes of carbon fern and marrow—and in the seat pocket, in front of me, were crimped, furled buds, stems bushy with fresh thorns, and her last flagon of perfume, its glass dove alighting to seize it...

Coffee is the common man's gold, and like gold, it brings to every person the feeling of luxury and nobility.

Don't fall prey to the 'genius' syndrome and outsmart yourself by being too complicated

She was full of sultry grace With her heavy, red lips and her soft, dark curls.

True, the Standard Model does explain a very great deal. Nevertheless it is not yet a proper theory, principally because it does not satisfy the physicists naive faith in elegance and simplicity. It involves some 17 allegedly fundamental particles and the same number of arbitrary and tunable parameters, such as the fine-structure constants, the muon-electron mass ratio and the various mysterious mixing angles.

Feathers needed, swan preferred.

A true classicist also keeps up with the times, cycling looks in and around the basics of her wardrobe – things such as trench coats, designer denim, knee boots, and big totes bags – items that invariably return to style time and again.

The time eras that I really like are more on '50s and '60s.

I think people should look cute all the time.

I wear things that kind of can look good for extended periods of time - fabrics that don't wrinkle, things that don't stain very easily.

The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.

The first time I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov it was like he had an anti-gravity machine in his pants. He would jump and stay in the air for 10 minutes.

I like to dress up in a tailored suit from time to time, and there's a tailor I go to in Naples who's fantastic. But if I told anyone his name, I'd have to kill them.

I wear black all the time.