Quotes About Elegance

I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.

Appropriateness of style and clothing.

The simpler, the better. Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects.

If you want to get an idea of a friend's temperament, ethics, and personal elegance, you need to look at him under the tests of severe circumstances, not under the regular rosy glow of daily life.

my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse.

I don't particularly care about the usual. If you want to get an idea of a friend's temperament, ethics, and personal elegance, you need to look at him under the tests of severe circumstances, not under the regular rosy glow of daily life.

Technology is at its best when it is invisible.

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Her beauty was not like that of a bonsai, which achieves its charm by asserting its own will in defiance of the careful bindings that lash and restrict it. How, I wondered, would my grandfather describe Mitsuru's beauty?

Crawley reached into the pocket of his fancy robe - a dinner jacket, I think it's called. The kind of thing Professer Plum would wear before killing Colonel Mustard in the ballroom with the candlestick.

but Cam has come to understand that a pedestal is nothing more than an elegant cage. No walls, no locks, but unless one has wings to fly away, one is trapped. A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

Do you come from Heaven or rise from the abyss, Beauty?

Her voice makes perfume when she speaks, Her breath is music faint and low.

These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and thinking.... Contrary to what many thoughtless people seem to believe, dandyism is not even an excessive delight in clothes and material elegance. For the perfect dandy, these things are no more than the symbol of the aristocratic superiority of his mind.

Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté, Luxe, calme et volupté. (L'Invitation au Voyage)

I join a heart of snow to the whiteness of swans; I hate movement for it displaces lines, And never do I weep and never do I laugh.

Oh foul magnificence, sublime disgrace.

Charles Baudelaire

Dandy'nin güzelliÄŸi, özellikle, hiçbir ÅŸeyden heyecanlanmamaya kesin kararl? olmaktan ileri gelen soÄŸuk görünüÅŸte yatar; bulunmuÅŸ bir ateÅŸ diyebilirsiniz buna, gizli bir ateÅŸ, ???k saçabilecekken saçmak istemeyen...

Her tint, pale and warm—this bewitching bride, Displays a nobly nurtured mien, Courageous and grand like a huntsman, her stride; A tranquil smile and eyes serene.

Dear, you evoke white-veiled and lukewarm hours

La belleza característica del dandi consiste sobre todo en la frialdad que se dimana de la inquebrantable resolución de no conmoverse;

Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté, Luxe, calme et volupté.