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Quotes About Elegance

I have named you queen. There are taller ones than you, taller. There are purer ones than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier.   But you are the queen.
~ Pablo Neruda
Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations; your skin throbs like the streak of a meteror through rain. Your hips were that much of the moon for me; and deep mouth and its delights, that much sun; your heart, fiery with its long red rays, was that much ardent light, like honey in the shade. So I pass across your burning form, kissing you—compact and planetary, from Love Sonnet "XVI
~ Pablo Neruda
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
~ Pablo Picasso
Och, Sarah, how shall I call augh' beautiful again unless it be the sight of you?
~ Pamela Clare
Someone once said to me: You never mention his looks. And it's true, I don't, I find it difficult. At that time, he was probably the most beautiful man alive, as he was certainly the most violent, but that's the problem. How do you separate a tiger's beauty from its ferocity? Or a cheetah's elegance from the speed of the attack? Achilles was like that- the beauty and the terror were two sides of a single coin.
~ Pat Barker
At the time, he was probably the most beautiful man alive, as he was certainly the most violent, but that's the problem. How do you separate a tiger's beauty from its ferocity? Or a cheetah's elegance from the speed of its attack? Achilles was like that - the beauty and the terror were two sides of a single coin.
~ Pat Barker
She pronounced each word carefully, as though she was tasting fruit. The words of her poems were a most private and fragrant orchard.
~ Pat Conroy
You must appreciate beauty for it to endure.
~ Pat Conroy
The city of Charleston, in the green feathery modesty of its palms, in the certitude of its style, in the economy and stringency of its lines, and the serenity of its mansions South of Broad Street, is a feast for the human eye.
~ Pat Conroy
she was writing a letter in her beautiful penmanship, her sentences all like well-made bracelets.
~ Pat Conroy
I want to be lovely in death...
~ Pat Conroy
You're Beautiful Like the green romance of a bud and lily's pink, gentle sway. You: more beautiful than yesterday. Wildflower's blue surprise. Daisy's white, sunny play. You're more beautiful than yesterday. Orchid's purple mystery Mum's bronze ole` You: more beautiful than yesterday. Rose's orange perfume, even tulip's yellow secrets say: You're more beautiful that yesterday. Poppy's red, teasing lips, but YOUR beauty will never fade. You: more lovely than yesterday, You: my dazzling bouquet.
~ Pat Mora
The dusky and faintly sweet smell of her perfume came to Therese again, a smell suggestive of dark green silk, that was hers alone, like the smell of a special flower.
~ Patricia Highsmith
Even the pearl at her earlobe looked alive, like a drop of water that a touch might destroy.
~ Patricia Highsmith
She was music, poetry, and the enchantment which lies just over the edge of thought.
~ Patricia Wentworth
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~ Dan Brown
Tall and lissome, Dr. Brooks moved with the assertive gait of an athlete. Even in shapeless scrubs, she had a willowy elegance about her. Despite the absence of any makeup that Langdon could see, her complexion appeared unusually smooth, the only blemish a tiny beauty mark just above her lips. Her eyes, though a gentle brown, seemed unusually penetrating, as if they had witnessed a profundity of experience rarely encountered by a person her age.
~ Dan Brown
Si existe alguna película que, con elegancia e imaginación, profundice en las violentas y delicadas verdades sobre el corazón humano, este humilde crítico aún no la ha descubierto.
~ Daniel Handler
Taste is a mystery.
~ Daniel Mendelsohn
God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
~ Paul Dirac
Being happy never goes out of style.
~ Lilly Pulitzer
"The smallest feline is a masterpiece."
~ Leonardo da Vinci
There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.
~ Ed Westwick
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
~ William Shakespeare