Quotes About Elegance

The sliding doors between the dining-room and drawing-room had been pulled back and the vast room thus formed was a riot of flowers, balloons and paintings, the long tables with their frost-white cloths sparkling with silver, the side tables groaning under the weight of the cold dishes.

Lena, glowing like a tiger-lily, swept to the piano

Interspersed with the clams were the serpulas, beautiful feathery petals, forever moving round and round, perched on the end of a long, thick, greyish tube. The moving petals, orange-gold and blue, looked curiously out of place on the end of these stubby stalks, like an orchid on a mushroom stem.

His clothes were such elegant confections, beautifully hand-stitched and of such exquisite materials, that Margo was torn between envy at his wardrobe and disgust

My mother had that talent for endowing any place she was with dignity and charm. She behaved elegantly and politely, and thus hoped to change the world.

Magic lives in curves, not angles.

Mozart is sunshine.

Hair is another name for sex.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

She was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.

Minimum information given with maximum politeness.

When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.

To be simple is to be great.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

Art, it seems to me, should simplify.

Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance.

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Simple style is like white light. It is complex, but its complexity is not obvious.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

Style is the dress of thoughts.

Taste is the feminine of genius.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Good taste is the flower of good sense.