Quotes About Elegance

My favorite shoe brand is Christian Louboutin - I don't have a favorite shoe store per se.

One of my favorite stories was Black Orchid, because it was so different from all the others. I especially enjoyed dancing the Charleston. I have always been keen on dancing.

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.

Motion is beauty and beauty is motionsless.

Black beauty - he's a dark horse.

Simple works, complex fails.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away." –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry French writer, author of The Little Prince

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

La perfección no se alcanza cuando no hay nada más que añadir, sino cuando ya no queda nada que quitar. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

But what happens if we frame things in terms of elegance instead of strain? Sometimes, we find incredible results with ease instead of stress. Sometimes, we "solve" the problem by completely reframing it.

Once you get fancy, fancy gets broken.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away. —ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY, pioneer

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. —Antoine de Saint-Exup

You come to a wedding, you should dress with the dignity of a funeral, because who the fuck knows when you'll ever see the couple again, and who the fuck knows when they'll see you again. So you get your look right, you don't glam it up, you don't whore it up, even though it's Las Vegas. No one ever got kicked out of a place in Las Vegas for dressing elegantly.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.

A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles.

Clothes should just be like a beautiful setting for a jewel: They should offset you.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.

I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.