Quotes About Elegance

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

three gleaming moonstones, soft and shimmering counterpoints to the clarity of the diamond.

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

There, there is nothing else but grace and measure,Richness, quietness and pleasure.

Dandyism is the last spark of heroism amid decadence.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Be charming, and shut up!

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

I have admired the romantic elegance of the Place de la Concorde in Paris, have felt the mystic message from a thousand glittering windows at sunset in New York, but to me the view of the London Thames from our hotel window transcends them all for utilitarian grandeur - something deeply human.

The water caresses in the glass, like love in the body. (L'eau caresse dans le verre, Comme l'amour dans le corps)

She's the ornament of her sex.

I thought her looking as she always does: superior in all respects to everyone around her

There was no noise, no effort, no consciences in anything he did, but in everything an indescribable lightness, a seeming impossibility of doing nothing else, or doing nothing better, which was so graceful, so natural & agreeable

He is of what is called the old school — a phrase generally meaning any school that seems never to have been young — and wears knee-breeches tied with ribbons, and gaiters or stockings.

The ghost of beauty, the ghost of stateliness, the ghost of elegance, the ghost of pride, the ghost of frivolity, the ghost of wit, the ghost of youth, the ghost of age, all waiting their dismissal from the desolate shore, all turning on him eyes that were changed by the death they had died in coming there.

The disposition of everything in the rooms, from the largest object to the least; the arrangement of colours, the elegant variety and contrast obtained by thrift in trifles, by delicate hands, clear eyes, and good sense; were at once so pleasant in themselves, and so expressive of their originator, that, as Mr. Lorry stood looking about him, the very chairs and tables seemed to ask him, with something of that peculiar expression which he knew so well by this time, whether he approved?

No era Esteban hombre galante, hermoso, ni llamativo en sentido alguno; sin embargo, en la manera como aceptó el obsequio y en el modo que tuvo de darlas gracias sin excederse en palabras, había una elegancia que ni en un siglo de aleccionamiento hubiera podido lord Chesterfield enseñar a su propio hijo.

but such is the wisdom of simplicity!

The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.

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

Opal is the multi-gem.