Quotes About Elegance

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

She is made for moderate emotions, ash-blonde sorrow.

In books, music, art I've always looked for emotion + elegance.

Her elegance was in the abstract; in her gait, in her posture, even in how she breathed.

an elegant woman, with a refinement that makes mere prettiness seem redundant.

Why does the future feel so much like the past, the uncanny clammy touch of it, the rustle of bridal sheet or shroud, the crackle of fire in a shuttered room? Like breath misting glass, like the nightingale's trace on the air, like a wreath of incense, like vapour, like water, like scampering feet and laughter in the dark.

Gems and jewels and sparkly things. Perfumes and powders and rouges and ribbons. Waltzes, polkas and polonaises. And princes for partners, And most of all, they liked satin dancing shoes.

Off with our nightgowns, and on with the silks and taffetas! Velvet and damask and lace like foam! Buttoned gloves, coral beads, pearl rings, diamond bracelets! Perfumes, powders, gilt tiaras and satin dancing shoes!

El Merkel de siempre. Es editorialista de un gran periódico, y a menudo escribe artículos de tono apocalíptico, que pretenden ser tomados en serio y en ocasiones lo merecen incluso. Mal afeitado y tembloroso por las mañanas, pero siempre elegante al atardecer, y dotado de un humorismo que se enciende al mismo tiempo que los faroles.

Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.