Quotes About Elegance

I don't think you should make so many off-colour jokes about him becoming a cuckold. You're only getting away with it because he doesn't know what it means.' 'That's the beauty of the English language. One can wrap insults inside elegance, like popping anchovies into pastry.

The trees were as bright as a shower of broken glass.

the only thing with less character than Chardonnay is wainscoting.

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

It's so beautifully made,' she said. 'It's like a Prada shoe.

A sparrowhawk, light as a toy of balsa-wood and doped tissue-paper, zipped past at knee-level, kiting up over a bank of brambles and away into the trees.

Now, St. John could have been born into his elegance. It's a dangerous kind of elegance—he doesn't raise his voice, he lowers it.

Miri and I conferred and decided that we liked the tallness of the house, the way the walls shoot up and up with the certainty of stone

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

las manos son aún más bellas cuando no imitan nada.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with an excellency of heart.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.

The answer lies in the Preface, where he explains, 'Obsolete words are admitted, when they are found in authors not obsolete, or when they have any force or beauty that may deserve revival.'ag Significantly, the epigraph to the finished Dictionary is a passage on this very theme from the second of Horace's Epistles; it celebrates the efforts of the prudent critic who weeds out undignified language and rehabilitates forgotten but elegant words.

These many and very different Sources of our Language may be the cause, why it so deficient in Regularity … Yet we have this advantage to compensate the defect, that what we want in Elegance, we gain in Copiousness.'2 These

In art economy is always beauty.

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

Her mouth is a soft explosion of roses A burst of raw animal definition For a few moments I was mortal

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

I heard the trailing garments of the NightSweep through her marble halls.

In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity

Prince Andrei was one of the best dancers of his day. Natasha danced exquisitely. Her little feet in their satin dancing shoes performed their role swiftly, lightly, as if they had wings, while her face was radiant and ecstatic with happiness.

But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all belonged, and in it the great thing was to be elegant, generous, plucky, gay, to abandon oneself without a blush to every passion, and to laugh at everything else.