Quotes About Elegance

She will be your living end. - Lady Grinning Soul

She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof.

basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste.

had numerous pairs of dress chinos and blue blazers and Topsiders, and a smile that looked as though someone had plugged him in.

You're wearing that bow tie, after all. Isn't that rather an invitation to a young sir?

Every element in a design should be expressed to the extent necessary, but not beyond the extent necessary. Excess is noise.

Objects and environments that embody naturalness, simplicity, and subtle imperfection achieve a deeper, more meaningful aesthetic.

If a person is too poor to keep a servant, though ever so elegant, he must sweep his own rooms:

You may hang your walls with tapestry instead of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them frescoed by a great painter: all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty's sake, and not for show: it does not break our golden rule: Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful

All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one.

Keep things simple.

Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate [Plurality must never be posited without necessity]

The prince of darkness is a gentleman!

When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water; the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description.

She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her.

She is rich in beauty.

I will play the swan. And die in music.

Tis a very excellent piece of work, madam lady. Would 'twere done.

O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night As a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear - Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.

L'autunno indugiava come invaghito della propria perfezione.

She was a dark young woman, a little above average in height, dressed in a close-fitting blue riding habit, a pale blue bodice, and a small tricorn hat. Connoisseurs would have disagreed as to whether she was beautiful, but few men would have passed her without a second glance.

Others have risen before her, and with fewer talents, I'd swear. She has a certain elegance already. In a few years it will be hard to tell her from a woman of breeding." "And she came for nothing? I doubt it. To me she looks a dangerous woman.