Quotes About Elegance

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

Genius lasts longer than beauty

Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

She was tall, exotic, so very young she seemed to flutter.

Puurheid in beweging.

No one ever fell in love gracefully.

Under the hooves of the horses the alabaster sand shaped itself in whorls strangely symmetric like iron filings in a field and these shapes flared and drew back again, resonating upon that harmonic ground and then turning to swirl away over the playa. As if the very sediment of things contained yet some residue of sentience. As if in the transit of those riders were a thing so profoundly terrible as to register even to the uttermost granulation of reality

Power. Intoxicating. Like a fine wine.

Social climbers strive to be aristocrats but their efforts prove them no such thing. Aristocrats do not strive; they have already arrived. Swing is a state of arrival.

Avevamo tutti l'aspetto di cadaveri: perché nulla fa pensare tanto a un morto quanto un uomo vestito da sera in pieno giorno.

Schön, nicht wahr?

Beriel shone with it, like a sun, the Queen in her Kingdom. It was as if each breath she drew increased her pleasure, breathing that air. It was as if each hoof the chestnut planted onto the earth increased her strength.

She was like a forest, like the dark interlacing of the oakwood, humming inaudibly with myriad unfolding buds. Meanwhile the birds of desire were asleep in the vast interlaced intricacy of her body.

My shoes are made of Spanish leather, My socks are made of silk; I wear a ring on every finger, I wash myself in milk.

Strut' said Ursula. 'One wants to strut, to be a swan among geese

One must strut, like a swan among geese.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

These arcades, a recent invention of industrial luxury, are glass-roofed, marble-panelled corridors extending through whole blocks of buildings, whose owners have joined together for such enterprises. Lining both sides of the corridors, which get their light from above, are the most elegant shops, so that the arcade is a city, a world in miniature, in which customers will find everything they need.

for Steve, less is always more, simpler is always better. Therefore, if you can build a glass box with fewer elements, it's better, it's simpler, and it's at the forefront of technology. That's where Steve likes to be, in both his products and his stores.

It takes a lot of hard work," he said, "to make something simple