Quotes About Elegance

She was wearing a brown tailor-made and from a strap over her shoulder hung one of those awkward-looking square bags that make you think of a Sister of Mercy taking first aid to the wounded.

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window. She was wearing street clothes that looked black and white, and a hat to match and she was a little haughty, but not too much. Whatever you needed, wherever you happened to be—she had it.

The calves were beautiful, the ankles long and slim and with enough melodic line for a tone poem.

She went out slowly. The way she did it hadn't been learned at business college.

While covering her from neck to ankles, it was thin and clung to her figure with alarming tenacity.

A city that had learned to make good bread had learned to make good cake also. A city that built itself up by good sense and industry had formed a powerful secondary intention of elegance.

You should smile at that,' he said. 'There is a Yiddish word, schlemiel, a man who falls over everything, who buys brass for gold. There should be a goy word for the elegant schlemiel, who has been born to handle gold but never knows it from brass and calls it gold with the weight of authority, who falls over everything but does it with such assurance that the fall is taken for a curtsy.

a blur of white satin and lace, Louisa Marie Honeycutt dove into the waiting limousine, slid across

A veces me ha pasado que me entusiasmo con lo que leo y siento el deseo de vivirlo inmediatamente. Hace años, por ejemplo, cuando terminé El gran Gatsby, sentí impulsos de ser orgulloso y apasionado y de estar a la altura de mis ilusiones. Me sentía yo también elegante y un poco desesperado pero capaz de todo. Es como un clima, una atmósfera, o mejor un sentimiento, y esa impresión dura lo que duran los ecos de una música, siempre ha sido algo fugaz.

Oh, Fairy Wogdog!' cried Rowsby Woof, dribbling and piddling all over the gravel. 'Ah, what elegance! What aristocratic distinction! Can that really be decayed cat that I smell? With a delicate overtone of rotten camel! Ah, the gorgeous East!

pero la velocidad era poder, y la velocidad era gozo y la velocidad era era pura belleza

He is the very pineapple of politeness!

The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.

Far from pointing to a designer, the illusion of design in the living world is explained with far greater economy and with devastating elegance by Darwinian natural selection

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.

On Harlan's World, streetlife has a stripped-back elegance to it, an economy of motion and gesture that feels almost like choreography if you're not used to it. I grew up with it, so the effect doesn't register until it's not there any more.

Of course, an old wine is like an old lady, and traveling can disturb her.

On Thursday, the sandwiches Greenie made were pork tenderloins with chipotle mustard, the soup a puree of beets and pears with Beaujolais wine and dill. For dessert, she made lemon wafers, rosewater marshmallows, and Amazon cake powdered with cocoa. Ray said, eyeing her preparations that morning. Fancy schmancy. That soup looks like something we'd serve to folks from the White House. Greenie said simply, Thank you.

He also loved candelabra.

Habíamos juzgado filosóficamente evidente que el suicidio era un derecho de cualquier persona libre: un acto lógico frente a una enfermedad terminal o la senilidad; una acción heroica frente a la tortura o la muerte evitable de otros; un acto elegante en la rabia del amor contrariado.

His grandfather had white peacocks roosting in a catalpa tree.

Good God. She was Wellington with eyelashes.

Good evening, Miss Eversea. You've stars in your hair.

He looked both a little bit dangerous and refined, like a ceremonial knife.