Quotes About Elegance

My practice is to cut the finished product on the diagonal and then wrap it in waxed paper that I still fold the way my Aunt Gin taught me. I'd added two Milano cookies and, being ever so dainty, I included two paper napkins, one to serve as a place mat and one for dabbing my lips.

Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste.

Art Nouveau objects, typically, convert one thing into something else: the lighting fixtures in the form of flowering plants, the living room which is really a grotto. A remarkable example: the Paris Métro entrances designed by Hector Guimard in the late 1890s in the shape of cast-iron orchid stalks.

I had brought something out of the earth, and it was used to make something beautiful.

It's a Kalahari diamond," he said. "I picked a square cut because it looks like a crystal of salt." Margot reached across the table and touched two fingers to his lips. "It's the prettiest thing I ever saw.

She wore almost no jewelry, which Rosa later learned was characteristic of women from the oldest and wealthiest families. Ostentation was for the nouveau riche.

A] smile is the most becoming ornament that any lady can wear.

Sometimes you my graciously permit all the most beautiful ladies in the land to wait in line to kiss your hands and fall in love with you.

She was slender, and wonderfully graceful. Except that her movements were languid—very languid—indeed, there was nothing in her appearance to indicate an invalid.

Any references to pregnancy or childbirth are coarse, and should be carefully side-stepped by the truly well-bred, as should intrusive comments on love-affairs.

You know that thing about Death Be Not Proud? Well, Fear Be Not Proud either. And Fear Be Not Elegant. What Fear be is stumbling, bumbling flight, crashing through brush, slip-sliding on pine needles, sloshing through puddles that are always deeper than you expect.

He wore a white raincoat, looking as suave as Shaft at a New Orleans funeral.

He shrugged off his finely tailored coat and handed it to a footman. Joanna shot a sharp look at several ladies who had the effrontery to sigh while staring at him. They looked like ravenous bitches. As in dogs, of course, never would she even think the impolite meaning of that term. Perhaps there was something to Royce's fox hunting allusion after all.

Mira: todo lo fuerte se hace, con su adorno, delicado. Más rosas, más rosas, más rosas...

que enseñar a perder, viejo: con altura, con elegancia, con convicción. Hay que escribir un Dale Carnegie al revés: "Cómo perder seguro" o "Derrótese usted mismo en los momentos libres", algo así... Y sería un éxito, porque le hablaría a la gente de lo que conoce. Eso necesitamos: un manual de perdedores.

She looked like what all women wanted to grow up to look like:

Beauty knows no time', he said softly, rising, and kissing her hand.

No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night.

Daily Parisian

He took the empty cup from Laura's hand and placed it on the table. "May I have this dance, Miss Woodfield? While I was unfamiliar with the steps at your party, I do know how to dance a proper Circassian circle. I promise I won't step on your toes." As they stepped onto the floor, she took hold of his hand. And his heart, as well.

But I do know," he continued, "how to salvage an evening for a girl in a party dress." He stood up, bowed. Held out his hand. "May I have this dance?" "Here?

He was a man who always gave the impression of wearing a top hat, even when he was not.

They all turned to the dark-haired woman standing quietly to the side and slightly behind Aunt Charlotte. She was, in a word, gorgeous. Everything about her was perfection, from her shiny hair to her milky-white skin. Her face was heart-shaped, her lips full and pink, and her eyelashes were so long that Honoria thought they must touch her brows if she opened her eyes too wide. "Well," Honoria murmured to Iris, "at least no one will be looking at us.

I've always thought that violet ribbons look especially nice with brown hair.