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Quotes About Elegance

Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces.
~ John Milton
I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics.
~ Julius Sumner Miller
Elegance and beauty have been banished.
~ Yves Saint Laurent
The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire
~ August Bournonville
I just really gravitate towards a nostalgia for a time when things were simpler. When beauty was more classical and glamorous.
~ Emmy Rossum
I much prefer a natural approach to beauty. You know, Coco Chanel always said to take one thing off before you leave the house, and I think that also applies to makeup.
~ Cate Blanchett
Smart beauty is about looking your best and feeling your best and never overpaying for it.
~ Stacy London
Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.
~ Fanny Kemble
The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Beauty isn't made of sugar.
~ Unknown
The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth.
~ Arthur Desmond
If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.
~ Alphonse Karr
Beauty with character ages better than perfection.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Most works are most beautiful without ornament.
~ Walt Whitman
Truth reveals itself in beauty.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I think my most favorite subject was Lena Horne, because she embodies soul and grace and elegance and 'street'. She embodies everything. And beauty — great beauty.
~ Carol Friedman
Let peace and beauty reign.
~ Moby
For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.
~ Virginia Woolf
Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.
~ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
~ Bill Watterson
People moving in Heaven move with grace and beauty and slowly glide along with their feet hardly seeming to touch the ground!
~ David Berg
New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.
~ Tom Piazza
Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald