Quotes About Elegance

Keira Knightley remains one of my mentors. I absolutely love her and will turn to her for industry advice or reassurance or validation at any time. She is very classy and elegant and lovely. I have a bit of a woman-crush on Keira.

Horses are the brand value of 'Wertheimer Freres.'

I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is my personal favorite, I answer, 'Grace Kelly.' She is a charming lady, a most gifted actress and, to me, a valued friend.

Find a judo solution, one that delivers maximum efficiency with minimum effort. When good enough gets the job done, go for it.

The best plans are always the simplest.

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Fashion is everything that goes out of fashion.

La décadence est la grande minute où une civilisation devient exquise.

Their heritage of instability, extravagant caprice, and natural elegance was their paternal portion.

Puisque la beauté court je dois courir plus vite

a choker they made with a star charm hung from a black grosgrain ribbon - admiring herself in a heart-shaped Venetian mirror, wielding a golden tube of lipstick in her right hand and holding a bottle of perfume in her left.

I must remember about chandeliers and dancing, about swans and roses and snow.

her waist goes in , her hips come out, her long black hair is coiled into a smooth bun on the top of her round head. She is very restful to the tired eye.

There was a vase of flame-coloured tulips in the hall - surely the most graceful of flowers. Some thrust their heads forward like snakes, and some were very erect, stiff, virginal, rather prim. Some were dying, with curved grace in their death.

If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.

Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,' and putting on his white gloves so that fingerprints would not show he tapped at my heart and I thought he said his name was Love.

Passion is not well bred.

A lady's hair is her crowning glory

Real ladies do not know the price of things

Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

AERIN is saturated with the qualities that have surrounded me my entire life, many of which came from my grandmother, Estee: passion, style, hard work, family, and, of course, all things beautiful.

The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.