Quotes About Elegance

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Perhaps on closer inspection it is not the [Standard Model] that lacks elegance. Perhaps it is we who have not yet learned to look at it from just the right point of view, one that would reveal its hidden simplicity.

It takes courage to reduce the number of the slides in a presentation. It takes courage to speak for 18 minutes instead of rambling on for much longer. Leonardo da Vinci once said, "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Have you ever looked at, say, a picture or a great building or read a paragraph in a book and felt the world suddenly expand and, in the same instant, contract and harden into a kernel of perfect purity? Do you know what I mean? Everything suddenly fits, everything's in its place.

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She was never overcome by drabness or squalor. She never glamorized anything; yet she saw the loveliness in everything.

Generally, if Marie Antoinette had worn a gown once, she did not wear it again.

A true lady never lets someone know when he's riled her; otherwise she's giving away her power and her crown.

Boopsy's Boutique catered to the woman, or man, with money and lots of it. Date dresses ran upward of a thousand dollars, and some of the high-end designer frocks touched five figures. The dresses were exquisite, emblazoned with crystals and pearls, complete with jewel-encrusted shoes to match. Needless to say, it wasn't a place I frequented.

She was enveloped from head to foot in a raccoon fur coat, with a jaunty hat of the same, trimmed only with a bright quill feather.

The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

Thou art my loveliness, my life, my light, Beauty alone to me.

Go for efficiency, elegance, and grace in your motions; avoid hasty shortcuts. Rather than thinking about getting the job finished and going on to something else, stay wholly focused on the moment, on the task at hand. Above all, don't hurry. You might discover that by not hurrying you'll finish the dishes sooner than would ordinarily be the case.

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

A dainty rogue in porcelain

Fair and fair, and twice so fair,As fair as any may be.

You look very elegant today, my lord." "I'm wounded. I strive to look elegant every day." - Tyrion & Littlefinger

That's pretty." He remembered Sansa telling him once that he should say that whenever a lady told him her name.

Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond.

Come on, come on, my sweetling, the music's still playing. Might I have this dance, my lady?

We then went to the swimming pool which is beyond the reception room. This was the finest pool I had ever seen, with red-and-green submerged lights, and a diving board in polished duraluminium.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

La noblesse vient de l'émotion contenue

hung like a trembling curtain of black lace