Quotes About Elegance

There's money, and then there's class.

She was like a large white flower bathed in light, magnificent in her isolation.

A mathematical proof should resemble a simple and clear-cut constellation, not a scattered cluster in the Milky Way.

The best mathematics is serious as well as beautiful—'important' if you like, but the word is very ambiguous, and 'serious' expresses what I mean much better

And then a lady in a window high, Fair-haired, dark-eyed, and dressed in ancient style... Whom, in another life, perhaps I've seen, And whom I now remember with a sigh.

La belle était assise Près du ruisseau coulant, Et dans l'eau qui frétille, Baignait ses beaux pieds blancs.

She was the most beautiful creature on Earth - her hair said so in that language only hair can speak.

Beauty... is the shadow of God on the universe.

Like cider and aged wine I was desired, desired like the sheer blue cascade that dazzles the eyes of the thirsty.

Fashion changes, style remains.

Novels certainly have their charms, but the most elegant creation in the prose universe is a short story.

Maya, novels certainly have their charms, but the most elegant creation in the prose universe is a short story. Master the short story and you'll have mastered the world, he thinks just before he drifts off to sleep. I should write this down, he thinks. He reaches for a pen, but there isn't one anywhere near the toilet bowl he is resting against.

of damask. One afternoon

She chose the brassavola, which looked like clusters of delicate calla lilies.

She gathered herself up- rather like collecting her skirts before mountibg a carriage

She gathered herself up- rather like collecting her skirts before mounting a carriage

The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.

Whatever it is, wherever he is, whatever he is doing, he smiles: it is a malady he has, neither an elegant one as I think, nor in good taste.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

How beautiful your sandaled feet, O prince's daughter! Your graceful legs are like jewels, the work of an artist's hands. Your navel is a rounded goblet that never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by lilies.

She was beautiful in a way that only wild things can be beautiful.

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!

I have a renewed commitment to elegance, she said, in case you think I'm just spending money for the fun of it.