Quotes About Elegance

Beauty is that which excites the soul.

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity.

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

Beauty is a sense of harmony.

Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty.

Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its ends.

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

So what if you're plain? Anyone can like a beautiful woman or a handsome man. That's easy. But power is the ability to inspire attraction without the obvious.

I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

I always think the best way to dress is when the person notices you first and the dress after.

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

A model should be as simple as it can be but no simpler

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

My dream car would be a Maserati. That would be amazing.

I'm always in favor of more glamour. I embarrass my children, I think. I am the lady in feathers in the car pool line.

Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.

Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.

Seeing and hearing are the only noble things in life. The other senses are plebeian and carnal. The only aristocracy is never to touch. Avoid getting close – that's true nobility.

lord, decked with jewels, sitting at the head of a table. It is a poetry of assonance

His hair was a curling mess and he showed the proper desregard for sartorial elegance which Harry had always seen as a sign of reliability in a person. Neat men always struck him as desperate and ambitious.