Quotes About Elegance

I love Olivia De Havilland. She is forever a lady.

Fashion is OK for five days, one minute, six months, but style is for the rest of the life.

Luxury takes many forms nowadays, but one thing doesn't change: luxury is about desire and the ability to create dreams.

Never in my life have I been captivated by by anybody onscreen the way I was when I saw Audrey Hepburn for the first time. She's everything a woman should be.

When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Ballet opens up the chest and the arms and elongates the body, so you carry yourself straighter. That's so important for a model. But also every woman.

Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

One should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

Devant une facade rose, Sur le marbre d'un escalier.

I remembered what you had said to me on that wonderful evening we first dined together, about the search for beauty being the real secret of life…

had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.

The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty.

Details are always vulgar

Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that.

A genius in the daytime and a beauty at night!

And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.

He was like a common gardener walking with a rose.

The St. James's

The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.