Quotes About Elegance

Consider this quote from the coding prodigy Santiago Gonzalez describing his work to an interviewer: Beautiful code is short and concise, so if you were to give that code to another programmer they would say, "oh, that's well written code." It's much like as if you were writing a poem.

I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.

An old woman, still beautiful, but bent, softened with time.

slim and curving sickle of the moon

And so the child of cinders went to the ball.

Maledetti i vestiti eleganti! A chi sarà venuta in mente un'idiozia come quella di andare in giro con un cappio al collo quando ci si vuole vestire bene?»

Her idea had a beautiful simplicity at first.

You could have lit every chandelier tonight with your smiles.

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Byrn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to me.

She is mirour of alle curteisye.

My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.

Dancing is music made visible.

She was so pretty, so elegant, it made me lonely just to look at her.

Jaq has put on her gown, her long silver gown, and she's rebraided her hair and applied her makeup, and she's breathtakingly beautiful. She has her backpack on and her bike helmet. Roxanne says, "What's this?" Jaq says, "I'm going to the Ball, Mama.

But no, here she is. Simply shocking in her beauty and poise. She's wearing her only gown, the silvery

It was never enough for him merely to establish a result; he had to do it with elegance and grace.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

Behavior was better when cinemas were opulent.

Let's take down the gold leaf," Caldenia said. "Elegance is never ostentatious, and there is nothing more bourgeois than covering everything in gold. It screams that one has too much money and too little taste, and it infuriates peasants. A palace should convey a sense of power and grandeur. One should enter and be awestruck. I've found the awe tends to cut down on revolts.

At heart, Curran was a cat. He liked soft things, high places, and enough room to stretch out.

Elegance is never ostentatious, and there is nothing more bourgeois than covering everything in gold. It screams that one has too much money and too little taste, and it infuriates peasants.

Red wine?" Fiona squinted at the glass. "Kate, if you spill the wine on yourself, they'll bury you in this dress." "Maybe wine isn't a good idea," George said.