Quotes About Elegance

You have crushed the grapes against your palate. Nothing has been hidden from you. And it has all been to you no more than the sound of music. It has not marred you.

Wenn eine Frau ihre Fehler nicht charmant begehen kann, ist sie nichts als ein Weib.

Conversation is one of the loveliest of the arts.

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime".

the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.

Bronze-limbed and well-knit, like a statue wrought by a Grecian, he stood on the sand with his back to the moon, and out of the foam came white arms that beckoned to him, and out of the waves rose dim forms that did him homage. Before him lay his shadow, which was the body of his Soul, and behind him hung the moon in the honey-coloured air.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these, there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs;

We should remember that all the arts are fine arts and all the arts decorative arts.

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

Girls do go for the finely-chiselled. And apart from his looks, he's and artist, and there's something about artists that seems to act on the other sex like catnip on cats.

I can remember the days, said the Gin-and-Ginger-Ale, when every other girl you met stood about six feet two in her dancing-shoes, and had as many curves as a Scenic Railway.

She was one of those women who kind of numb a fellow's faculties. She made me feel as if I were ten years old and had been brought into the drawing room in my Sunday clothes to say how-d'you-do.

Like pleasure, beauty should be savored and enjoyed

The ability to accessorize is what elevates us from lower-life forms, I said in my lecture voice, choosing a pair of diamond-studded drops for my ear. Like men.

Let me walk in beauty.

All nice girls sketch a little.

She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season. She had

She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season.

When it comes to the smooth stuff, old girl, you're the oyster's eye-tooth!

What are you giving us? Cold consomme, a cutlet, and a savoury, sir. With lemon-squash, iced. Well, I don't see how that can hurt him. Don't go getting carried away by the excitement of the thing and start bringing in coffee.

She had more curves than a scenic railway

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.....

Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs, you look like a world, lying in surrender.