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Quotes About Elegance

In history people dressed much better than we do today.
~ Vivienne Westwood
If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.
~ Vivienne Westwood
Saavik gazed calmly at the viewscreen. She was aesthetically elegant in the spare, understated, esoterically powerful manner of a Japanese brush-painting.
~ Vonda N. McIntyre
As long as I love Beauty I am young.
~ W. H. Davies
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all1
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Civilisation and top hats bore me.
~ Unknown
come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain
~ W.S. Merwin
Enhancing a woman's silhouette and enhancing a woman's beauty - both contribute to enhancing her confidence, so they're synonymous, really.
~ L'Wren Scott
I think that glamour is about confidence and really owning the look.
~ Monique Lhuillier
Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Confidence is one of the sexiest things in guys and girls.
~ Danica McKellar
Everybody needs a killer LBD. If you're a woman, you should find that LBD that gives you that extra pep and confidence.
~ Zac Posen
Style is about confidence. That's the real beauty.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
The American woman is more stylish than any other in the world. She understands the power of good style and has the confidence to feel comfortable.
~ Max Azria
"Glamour" is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way mentally and physically and in appearance and that whatever the occasion or the situation you are equal to it.
~ Marlene Dietrich
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
~ Tennessee Williams
I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.
~ Rufus Wainwright
Death is the only real elegance.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed.
~ Daniel Handler
Death is a name for beauty not in use.
~ Irving Layton
She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
~ Bram Stoker