Quotes About Elegance

day when we were young and lovely.

Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.

One rather thick volume was titled Means of Execution Through the Ages, and was placed with an elegant balance of nonchalance and availability at the eye level of anyone entering the room. As threats went, it was nearly subliminal—and perhaps it was placed there for that very reason.

We followed him through the wealthy splendor of the house. Hardwood floors. Custom carved woodworking. Statues. Fountains. Suits of armor. Original painting, one of them a van Gogh. Stained-glass windows. Household staff in formal uniform. I kept expecting to come across a flock of peacocks roaming the halls, or maybe a pet cheetah in a diamond-studded collar.

Mab] was pale, beautiful on a scale that beggared simple description, and I harbored a healthy and rational terror of her.

As long as we're going, we might as well go out in style.

I work in grand halls and bedchambers with wine and perfume. Not in dark alleyways with cloaks and knives. I don't like knives. I don't even own a knife. And my cloaks are far too expensive to risk bloodying.

Mab narrowed her eyes, and a little smile graced her lips. "Impudent," she said. "It's sweet on you.

Her looks were almost extraneous. They weren't any more important to her appeal than a glass was to wine.

They were pretty, too, a blonde, a brunette, and a redhead, and they had nice . . . smiles.

with unnatural fury and grace.

dressed in black slacks and a grey silk shirt, and

Elaborate is the courtliness of the imagination, on one sore knee before beauty.

Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.

They [best dressed women] don't want to look like their daughters. They want their own individual brand of chic. […] The cut and fit must be exactly right, and they are willing to spend hours in the fitting room to make sure of it. They spend money, too. But if any one of them went broke tomorrow she'd rather choose one perfectly cut expensive dress and make it do for years than buy a dozen cheap ones.

There were the youngest children, small girls with leis, barefoot. There were watercress sandwiches, champagne, lemonade, peach-colored napkins to match the sorbet that came with the cake, peacocks on the lawn. She kicked off the expensive shoes and unpinned the veil. 'Wasn't that just about perfect,' she said when she called that evening.

Hero-ology, Spell-ology, Revenge-ology, Beast-ology, and Beautyology.

If I'm going to die today, the least I can do is look fabulous while I'm doing it.

Bonne vent, jolie vent. (Good wind, nice wind, pretty wind.)

To me, design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort - so you can get on with the things that matter.

To relive your special day again in this world with good company, great food, and fine wine. May we again appreciate you the center piece of the table and the night.

Being beautiful is not in the way you dress nor on the pigments you put in your face. Being beautiful is being simple.

Being beautiful comes naturally!

Being classy is NOT about being stuck up, but more so about having a simply unique style that will never be forgotten. To be classy is to have respect; respect for others, respect for elders and most of all respect for yourself.