Quotes About Elegance

I cannot bear clumsy women who rise from a chair as if they are activated by wires.

hat with a rolled brim, a short cloak

I had decided early on that if I couldn't dress elegant, I'd dress memorable.

beautifuller

houses for the gentry that are wondrous to behold.

Domaine Leroy Musigny Grand Cru

steel Jaeger-Lecoultre Reverso Grande Taille

I watched her, a tall girl with long hair so black that under the stage lighting it coruscated like moonlit liquid. It cascaded in waves around the smooth contours of her shoulders, past the alluring shadows of her waist, around the upturned curve of her ass. She was tall and fine-boned, with delicate white skin, high cheekbones, and small, high breasts. Put the hair up, add a little couture, and you'd have the world's classiest courtesan.

Her fingers were small in my hand but her grip was firm. I tried to place her age. Late twenties, maybe thirty. She looked young, but her dress and mannerisms were sophisticated.

she found Robinson among the hundreds of New Yorkers who managed to make a great amount of money for doing almost nothing at all but was pretty as god and possessed of a voice like a French horn, so that at crucial parties he could say practically nothing and leave the impression among the more musically eared that profundity of the eternal sort had passed near.

I would bow slightly with my hands in my pockets, toward the birds and the evidence of life in their nests--because of their fecundity, unexpected in this remote region, and because the serene arctic light that came down over the land like breath, like breathing.

She wasn't wearing makeup that night, and didn't need any. The moonlight was her makeup.

Incredibly, there are people—smart people—who think a prim disdain for drama is somehow a sign of "good taste." It is more often the reverse: a lamentable insensitivity to the essence of the art, a failure to "get it" on the most essential level. It is more often a sign not of good taste but of artistic insecurity. Not knowing how far to go, the writer goes nowhere. Lifelessness is not a form of elegance you should pursue.

begirt with a flowing kirtle

Mr. Gingham had the true spirit of his profession, and such words as funeral or coffin or hearse never passed his lips. He spoke always of interments, of caskets, and coaches, using terms that were calculated rather to bring out the majesty and sublimity of death than to parade its horrors.

Subtlety is a lost art. - Ada

Most people are reluctant to see themselves as being creative because they associate creativity with complexity. But creativity is simplicity.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." —Charles Mingus, legendary jazz musician

Los mejores planes suelen ser los más sencillos

She has simply never quite learned to walk or hold herself comfortably, which makes her come off as an attractive wallflower.

Rouge et Noir

Peppier n. The waiter at a fancy restaurant whose sole purpose seems to be walking around asking diners if they want ground pepper.

Style, not least, adds beauty to the world. To a literate reader, a crisp sentence, an arresting metaphor, a witty aside, an elegant turn of phrase are among life's greatest pleasures.

I love deep cleavage on the foot. It reminds me of Berlin in 1930s, 'Cabaret.'