Quotes About Elegance

wake up to the beauty of old women?

hers was one of those faces that time seems to touch only to brighten and adorn.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Beauty was all I'd ever cared for. It was all that ever moved me.

Keeper," Bramble said in a syrupy voice, grinning. "Have you met anyone so blasted handsome? " "Hush," said Azalea through her teeth. "He can probably hear you!" "And so dashing," said Bramble, though her tone was a touch lower. "And so perfect." "I've never seen anyone with such...fingers," said Goldenrod. Everyone paused. "Well, yes, his fingers, too," said Bramble.

Sir,' she called out. 'Lord Bradford.' He turned. His eyes lit up, seeing Azalea. 'Thank you,' said Azalea. Lord Bradford bowed deeply, removing his hat, which re-rumpled his hair. When he straightened, he was smiling, as crooked as his cravat, and Azalea couldn't help but smile back.

Your love is like your whispers on leaves in the autumn, and on petals in the spring, your love, you see, is the beauty you bring.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

She approached with her tail up in the air and waving slowly back and forth. The fringe of hair

Every style seems completely appropriate to its epoch. We cannot imagine Madame de Pompadour, or the Empress Josephine, or the early Victorian lady in anything but the clothes she actually wore. Each represents completely the ideals of her time: elegant artificiality or post-Revolutionary morals, or the prudery of the rising middle class.

It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.

All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think.

Jony, too, would become a master of the approach, agreeing with Jobs's mantra: 'Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

We are not interested in design statements. We do everything we can to simplify design.

My other hobby, because I just love any job with a gavel, is auctioneer. And I so often have presided over charity auctions in New York that many years ago Sotheby's sent me my own gavel. Now, the Sotheby's gavel is infinitely more elegant--it came in a little velvet bag, with "Sotheby's" inscribed in gold. It hangs in my library. I feel that everyone has occasion to use a gavel at various times everyday, they just don't think of it.

Life, with the Soul predominant, Is a noble mosaic, a bewitching arabesque.

buildings—faded brick buildings enclosed by a faded brick wall. A school, perhaps, or the estate of a dull family. The buildings had once been elegant, but many of the windows were shattered

The Hemlock Tearoom and Stationery

No matter how sophisticated the style or elegant the setting, soul is the bottom line.

Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend

Art, in a sense, is life brought to a standstill, rescued from time. The secret of making it is simple: discard everything that is good enough.

When Vivian began to recover they brought her a fluted glass vase with an arrangement of lilies and yellow roses from the flower shop on Eighteenth Street owned by an elegant man Arthur had once been involved with, Christos, who was friends with both of them. He, too, loved the theater and everything about it. Later he opened a restaurant.

He unrolls names like a splendid carpet.

She's not young, but rather in the midst of that last and most confident beauty, like the mother of a schoolmate. You see her emerging from a car, the flash of an elegant calf, and you are tumbled into unbearable love.