Quotes About Elegance

She drank like a Czar and sang like a broken squeezebox and danced like the Sugarplum Fairy cutting loose at last

Byron kissed her gloved hand as they stepped lightly round one another. He could dance like rivers could run. No one had ever kissed her hand before. Emily felt like she was going to throw up and like she was flying all at once.

Don't meddle in Politicks with your mouth full, dear," said the Vicereine gently.

bottle green Jaguar.

Those are the qualities of a great racehorse and a great gentleman. A gentleman likes to have a horse that gives the right answers to those questions, then he can believe that he will give the right answers too. To do my part, I have to give a man a likeness that shows not just how beautiful the horse looks, but how beautiful it feels to him.

Frédéric Bazille, Young Woman with Peonies.

her hair tied up in an elaborate lace rigolette

She beckoned me to follow her, and we passed from the portico into rooms whose magnificence has stolen the words from the mouths of the poets.

Even the genteel ladies in the high stands opened their delicate throats and pierced the sky with their soprano squealing.

La semplicità dev'esser tale che lo scrittore, o chiunque l'adopra in qualsivoglia caso, non si accorga, o mostri di non accorgersi di esser semplice, e molto meno di esser pregevole per questo capo. Egli dev'esser come inconsapevole non solo di tutte le altre bellezze dello scrivere, ma della stessa semplicità.

The French and their food. They put each meal on a pedestal.

I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around.

She was like steel. It was in her eyes, and in her voice, and in the fine, shining look of her. From the sparkling ankles to the expensive-crink of a hat. She looked sexy and untouchable, the way they can look if they want. She looked expensive.

like a swan and its reflection on the surface of a lake.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

Architecture is frozen music.

Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering, and the arts. They carry with them a certain polish that marks them as loving the better qualities of life, a culture that adds luster to the mundane world of which they are apart, a patina that puts a quiet glow on what otherwise might be base metal.

All the lovely ladies in their finery tonight I wish that I could know them one by one

Beauty is visible music....

A cat is an example of sophistication minus civilization.

Cats are sleeping art.

In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.

A handsome shoe often pinches the foot.