Quotes About Elegance

Beauty - the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

Oozing charm from every pore, He oiled his way around the floor.

There is such a thing as too much couth.

Whenas in silks my Julia goes, Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows The liquefaction of her clothes!

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.

To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For Nature made her what she is, And never made another.

Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

Fashions fade - style is eternal.

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear on cheerfully, do all bravely, awaiting occasions, worry never; in a word to, like the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.

It's a rare thing, graciousness. The shape of it can be acquired, but not, I think, the substance.

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh.

Choupette literally has the finest tuna, the finest of everything a cat could ever have.

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.

Among the many things that have slipped up on me while my back was turned are all of these challenging and well-manicured public courses that have sprung up across America with elegant bars and restaurants.