Quotes About Elegance

I like to keep it bare minimum, be it make-up or accessories.

I advocate glamour. Every day. Every minute.

But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.

Here, in the valley, the world seems to be constructed upon a smaller and more delicate scale...

In heaven she will probably sit between the Heloises and the Cleopatras.

she, like all others, had moments of commonplace, when to be least plainly seen was to be most prettily remembered

Fitness being the basis of beauty, nobody could have denied that his steady swings and turns in and about the flock had elements of grace...

Don't you love to look at coffins? I've always enjoyed looking at one now and then. I think of a coffin as an absolutely lovely piece of furniture, even when it's empty, and if there's someone lying in it, it's really quite sublime in my eyes.

Don't you like the sight of a coffin? I really do. I find it a handsome piece of furniture, even empty; when someone is lying in it, then, in my eyes, it is positively sublime.

The discipline and elegance, the hushed serenity and intellectual challenge, the well-ordered and well-tended life, the precise yet richly varied schedule—it all spoke to Leo's profoundest instincts.

Aschenbach noticed with astonishment the lad's perfect beauty. His faced recalled the noblest moment of Greek sculpture—pale, with a sweet reserve, with clustering honey-coloured ringlets, the brow and nose descending in one line, the winning mouth, the expression of pure and godlike serenity. Yet with all this chaste perfection of form it was of such unique personal charm that the observer though he had never seen, either in nature or art, anything so utterly happy and consummate.

She walked in on soft, elegant chaos, an impression of emanations, mutually interfering, from the stub-antennas of everybody's exposed nerve endings.

C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre

The lights, the azaleas, the dresses, the pink faces, the velvet chairs, all became one beautiful flying wheel.

Dark girls, fair girls were patting their hair, tying ribbons again, tucking handkerchiefs down the fronts of their bodices, smoothing marble-white gloves. And because they were all laughing it seemed to Leila that they were all lovely.

But the pear tree was as lovely as ever and as full of flower and as still.

And I feel as I always do that Autumn is loveliest of all. There is such a sharpness with the sweetness—

En cuanto a las rosas, daba la sensación de que sabían muy bien que eran las únicas flores capaces de impresionar a los invitados; son las únicas flores que todos conocen. Cientos, sí, literalmente cientos se habían abierto durante la noche; los verdes rosales se doblegaban bajo su peso como si los hubiesen visitado unos arcángeles.

If there are to be rules, they must be articulable and defensible, like etiquette. I do not do anything simply because my family did it. I do things because they make sense, and because they are elegant.

There is nothing more difficult than simplicity,' Madame

Climbing the steps to the hotel, Grace paused, taking a long look at Paris, in all its shimmering, enigmatic elegance, wearing the nigh as a beautiful woman wears diamonds.

There is nothing more difficult than simplicity,' Madame added, turning her back on them. 'And therefore, nothing more refined.

Being slender is undoubtedly elegant but neurotic self-obsession is not. - Madame Dariaux

Young men seemed to collect by her side, ready with drinks and conversation. She tanned quickly and easily, her delicate limbs oiled and gleaming. In the evening, she made the most of her new tan in low-cut clinging evening dresses in white or black.