Quotes About Elegance

A sure way to claim a bit of cool in Hollywood - if you're an actress, at least - is to announce you don't have a stylist. Some of the most consistently elegant, inimitable women on the red carpet, like Marion Cotillard, Blake Lively, and Diane Kruger, say they go at it alone.

The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.

Glamour is not something you possess but something you perceive, not something you have but something you feel. It is a subjective response to a stimulus.

Jackie O was so capable in so many ways. Hillary tried to redefine the role when she got into public policy, and Michelle Obama is able to move smoothly between form and function, style and substance.

My mother taught us that ambition is part of femininity and really taught us to have substance but also style.

I want to do every kind of role with a reasonable amount of panache. I want to be a fair combination of style and substance.

Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.

It's not a good idea to match your shoes with a bag too stringently. Go for subtle similarity.

There's no need to go the full hog - a touch of subtle sequins will lift any outfit.

I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.

I like subtlety, blending in as opposed to screaming out 'look at me' with the way I dress.

Really, subtlety is what is really important to me and my work.

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Clamboring over building detritus was not the lifestyle Karl Lagerfeld had in mind for this sweet little powder-blue suit. As he oversaw the hand stitching in his atelier he had probably imagined the suit living a life of tea parties and lunches with the girls at the Ivy

Chic rarely bothers to leave the Rue De Faubourg Saint-Honore.

The spirit of Mayfair beats in the soul of dandies and dandizettes everywhere.

All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul. Purple is not just a noun and an adjective but also a verb — when you look at it, it's looking back at you.

A woman wears her tears like jewelry.

Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.

Ms. Connell sighs because wealth does not equate to good manners.

Seek beauty in simplicity, not in complexity.

Mary Poppins's greatest precept: Never Explain.

Rare and powerful harmonies exist, Shaping both scent and contour in a flower. Thus brilliance lies unseen by us until, Beneath the chisel, it blazes in the diamond. And thus do images of fleeting vision, Drifting above like cloud-forms in the sky, Once turned to stone live on from age to age, Held always in a faultless, polished phrase. ("A Sonnet To Form")