Quotes About Elegance

You've made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.

Polo sheets is what I lands on.

Next to her, even the prettiest djamphir boys looked gawky.

Some of the djamphir are so pretty it almost hurts to look at them. And it was hard to look without feeling rumpled and messy in comparison.

A lady is one who never shows her underwear unintentionally.

I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready, I think I would have rather been watching.

Me, I always thought the international art world was for the elegant and elite. Classy, calm, sedate, cultured, I'm tellin' you, there are more lowlifes in this business than all the Hannibal Lecter wanna-bes in the world.

She is not an attractive crier. Few children are. Matthew was an exception. He cried so elegantly.

We want desperately to believe that no matter what life we've led, at the end we can pull off a victorious and elegant exit.

I like my women in a few wisps of drapery: then I can hope for a chance to remove the wisps.

Die Mode jener Jahre war umständlich und töricht. Die Männer knöpften sich steifleinerne Krägen um die Hälse, enge, überflüssige, unschöne Kleidungsstücke, und umwanden sie mühsam zu schlingenden, zwecklosen Binden, sogenannten Krawatten.

I've lost not only my vanity but my feeling of mind-body identity, so that I no longer believe, as you did about me, that elegance of form is elegance of being. I do my best to keep the numbers on the scale where I want them and my skin and hair well tended, but my body is now essentially the vehicle for carting around what I think of as my self. Not

Well, that's the thing about knots, isn't it? If you don't know the trick, it's a muddled predicament. But in fact each loop of every knot is carefully placed, one end twisting into the other in a way you might not have expected. I find them rather beautiful, really.

Yes, I see, Mr Worsley. The love that shall not speak its name." "Well, yes, something like that. Something illicit, dangerous, yet also something beautiful, something... grand. A grand love, one that has brought both joy and heartache. Yes?

I've barely eaten and the cheap, not-quite-cold-enough champagne goes directly to the bottom of my stomach and into my bloodstream and I find, as my eyes take in the beauty of Chicago's skyline reflected in the rose-gold mirror of the lake, that I am crying.

Generally speaking, the word minimalism as a style describes the idea of not overcomplicating compositions with too many unnecessary details and elements.

I'm not short," Daisy muttered. "Short women are never mysterious, or elegant, or pursued by handsome men. And they're always treated like children. I refuse to be short.

Say as little as possible," Lady Berwick told the girls severely. "Remember that silence is golden." Glancing at Pandora, she added, in your case, it's platinum.

There is a certain swagger with vampires.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet.

They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'

Go outside! I mean, even leaves from a park are beautiful in a clear glass vase. I'd rather see that than fake anything any day.