Quotes About Elegance

Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.

Frenchwomen always give one to understand that arranging themselves is full-time work.

Maurice Baring's

That was where [Lady Montdore's] charm lay. She would suddenly be nice just when it seemed that she was about to go for you tooth and nail, it was the charm of a purring puma.

Madame de Pompadour excelled at an art which the majority of human beings thoroughly despise because it is unprofitable and ephemeral: the art of living. Change is the greatest aphrodisiac of all.

she was one of them again, one of the actors moving in the stage, as graceful as any of them.

He was waiting for me at the best table in the room, toying with a glass of white wine and listening to the pianist who was playing a piece by Granados with velvet fingers.

Vidal had his exuberant and stately tower in the most elegant and elevated part of Pedralbes, surrounded by hills, trees, and fairy-tale skies. I would have my sinister tower rising above the oldest, darkest streets of the city, surrounded by the miasmas and the shadows of that necropolis which poets and murderers had once called the Rose of Fire.

Bea Aguilar was the very image of her mother and the apple of her father's eye. Redheaded and exquisitely pale, she always wore very expensive dresses made of silk or pure wool.

Nuria Monfort era una mujer más que atractiva, de rasgos tallados para figurines de moda y retratos de estudio, a la que la juventud parecía estar escapándosele por la mirada.

A stroke saw him off on All Souls' Night, with a Cuban cigar in his lips and a twenty-five-year-old on his lap. What a way to go.

Nothing had ever terrified her so much as sensing that animality under her own skin, the prey's instinctive recognition of her predator, dressed in elegant linen.

Pretty dresses, desperate hearts.

There is really nothing more unattractive than the sight of a young woman displaying a repulsive amount of arm.

Mrs. Saville had a superb swoop of bosom. It started directly beneath the hollow of her neck and finished just a smidgen above what, if only a hint of indentation had been present, could have passed for her waist.

She Walks in Beauty Like the Night Of Cloudless Climes and Starry Skies

front of her dress somewhere

Emily Willoughby, a dainty young woman, had chestnut-colored hair, set off to advantage by her white linen dress.

She was tall, with reddish-blond hair and very fair skin. Her voice was musical and she had an attractive, lilting laugh.

Those river boats saw lots of good times, I guess," Nancy remarked. Afterward, the two ate dinner in a river steamer anchored nearby. It was furnished elegantly in nineteenth-century style. "Um! It's delicious," said Julie Anne, biting into a broiled, freshly caught fish topped with buttered almonds.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of your soul

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