Quotes About Elegance

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the ceremony known as afternoon tea

The years have touched her only to enrich her; the flower of her youth had not faded; it only hung more quietly on its stem.

She was a plain-faced old woman, without graces and without any great elegance, but with an extreme respect for her own motives. She was usually prepared to explain these—when the explanation was asked as a favour; and in such a case they proved totally different from those that had been attributed to her

furnished, but by no means decorated

You're like a picture; you ought to be enclosed in a gilt frame and stand against the wall.

Pearls have such a magic that they suit every one.' 'They would uncommonly suit you,' he frankly returned. 'Oh yes, I see myself!

Great statesmen oughtn't to waltz.

she would have been as smooth to his general need of her as handled ivory to the palm.

He had never supposed she hadn't wings and the need of beautiful free movements.

Prettiness is terribly vulgar nowadays, and it is not every one that knows just the sort of ugliness that has chic.

The years has touched her only to enrich her; the flower of her youth had not faded; it only hung more quietly on its stem.

The young girl inspected her flounces and smoothed her ribbons again; and Winterbourne presently risked an observation upon the beauty of the view. He was ceasing to be embarrassed, for he had begun to perceive that she was not in the least embarrassed herself.

It simply appeared to him proper and reasonable that a well-bred young woman should not carry half her fortune on her back. (...)

but she carries her head like a pretty woman. (Chapter 1)

In her tight-fitting Persian dress, with turban to match, she looked ravishing.

It's beautiful to have a smoking jacket, a good cigar and a wife who plays the piano. So relaxing. So lenitive. Between the acts you go out for a smoke and a breath of fresh air.

In her tight-fitting Persian dress, with turban to match, she looked ravishing, Spring had come and she had donned a pair of long gloves and a beautiful taupe fur slung carelessly about her full, columnar neck.

Like Boticelli's Venus, you rose from the sea and are still all foam!

and every one knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything coolly is to do it genteelly.

What a beautiful and chaste-looking mouth! from floor to ceiling, lines, or rather papered with a glistening white membrane, glossy as bridal satins.

I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.

Stick to the classics, and you can't ever go wrong. I see old ladies on the street who have fabulous style and realize it's because they are probably wearing really classic items that they've had for years and years. I think if you find something that suits you, you should just stick to it.

Few changes are allowed in Palm Beach, making it an anachronistic little village where everything looks almost the same as it did years and years ago.

I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.