Quotes About Elegance

Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.

Then his proud bearing, his manners, his elegance, his good looks — and who could be altogether insensitive to them? — powerfully suggested to me that here at last I had found someone who came up to my ideal of a friend.

Not, perhaps, so elegant as your Berkeley Square, but sometimes, even here, you can hear a Nightingale sing.

In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it.

Burgundy for kings, champagne for duchesses, claret for gentlemen.

Burgundy for Kings, Champagne for Duchesses, and claret for Gentlemen

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Death isn't beautiful. Near-death however, is gorgeous.

Suddenly, Vin grew pale. Elend paused, glancing at her, sensing that something was wrong. Not with what he'd said, something else. What is it? Assassins? Mist spirits? Koloss? "I just realized something," Vin said, looking at him with those intense eyes of hers. "I can't go to a ball—I didn't bring a gown!

Despite noble depravity, there was something intoxicating about high society.

Some things just work . There is elegance in simplicity.

Allomancy wasn't just about fighting and killing. It was about skill and grace. It was something beautiful.

Rich people, she decided, loved to stick with a theme.

Tea at the Ritz is the last delicious morsel of Edwardian London. The light is kind, the cakes are frivolous and the tempo is calm, confident and leisurely.

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

El vino es la cosa más civilizada del mundo.

A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

Les détails nous empoisonnent la vie. Simplifiez, simplifiez.

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller in this instance, who always proportions his stay at any place to the beauties, elegancies, and curiosities which it affords.

his whole person wanted all that elegance and beauty which is the very reverse of clumsy strength, and which so agreeably sets off most of our fine gentlemen; being partly owing to the high blood of their ancestors, viz., blood made of rich sauces and generous wines, and partly to an early town education.

Her face was not young, but it was simple; it was not fresh, but it was mild. She had large eyes which were not bright, and a great deal of hair which was not 'dressed,' and long fine hands which were--possibly--not clean.

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate.