Quotes About Elegance

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Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

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Mrs. Vreeland always said, style, not fashion.

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.

Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.

His presence was overwhelming, yet equally evident was the lithesome grace of it.

She was a classic beauty. She looked like a coin, so it was only natural for her to circulate.

Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.

Being a lady is an attitude.

[C]elebrate the exquisite beauty of every woman.

Behind each thing a shadow lies; Beauty hath e'er its cost: Within the moonlight-flooded skies How many stars are lost!

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

His sad expression, now, that isolates Irene and me, destroying the universe around us. It's his turn to envy me, twenty years after those days when the beauty, elegance and notoriety of his mistresses gave him, in my eyes, a painful prestige. The apparent modesty of my triumph doesn't at all diminish its cruelty. I feel almost happy over the sufferings of this man. His solitude wins me from my own.

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days

Wine is] poetry in a bottle.

matched pair of Purdey shot-guns, one of which had not been fired,

Of a young actress: "She is pretty, and tactfully concerned that the optical pleasure she provides shall not be disturbed by technical requirements any more than necessary.

It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.