Quotes About Elegance

They saw a Dream of Loveliness descending from the train.

I live in trainers and baggy clothes, but on the red carpet, I either go for something very pretty from Temperley London or a structured Roland Mouret dress.

I'm one of those girls that, day-to-day, I'm in trainers or Converse. I have about 50 pairs of trainers, so when I get the chance to dress up, I will definitely be in heels. 100 percent. I might take some battered Converse in my bag to wear at the after-party when my feet are tired.

My mom was an artist, and she had this amazing ability to transform everything into something beautiful.

A queen is authentic, not because she says so, just because she is. A queen doesn't have to say nothing. Everybody can see it, and feel it, too.

By means of beauty, all beautiful things become beautiful.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

The best style is the style you don't notice.

Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles.

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

Silence gives the proper grace to women.

Silence is an ornament for women.

I don't want to go to heaven, I want to go to Claridge's.

I know good design when I fail to trip over it.

Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.

A well-chosen tie could make me almost merry; a good book, an excursion in a motor car or an hour with a woman left me fully satisfied. It particularly pleased me to ensure that this way of life, like a faultlessly correct suit of English tailoring, did not make me conspicuous in any way. I believe I was considered pleasant company, I was popular and welcome in society, and most who knew me called me a happy man.

Making music, dancing, the theater, conversation, proper and urbane deportment, these were cultivated here as particular arts. It was not the military, nor the political, nor the commercial, that was predominant in the life of the individual and of the masses.

La plus volontaire mort c'est la plus belle.

Mrs Poste, who had wished people to live beautiful lives and yet be ladies and gentlemen.

He came over to her with the lounging grace of a panther, and leaned against the mantelpiece.

Marie Laurencin.

I watched him wave from the back of his hired mare and clatter off down the silent streets of Hans Town in a westerly direction; and reflected that there are few sights so gratifying to a female eye, as a handsome man in a well-made coat and hat, astride a horse on a spring morning.

Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.