Quotes About Elegance

Prachtig subliem in zijn ondergang, verheerlijkte hij zich in de krankzinnigheid zijner tragedie

Your lips are like sugar And your cheeks an apple Your breasts are paradise And your body a lily. O, to kiss the sugar To bite the apple To reveal paradise And open the lily.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry

Let us be elegant or die! --Amy

which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?

In old Quebec City, "magnificent" wasn't measured in square feet, but in details.

His body spoke of meals enjoyed and a life of long walks rather than contact sports.

The Art of Coorie shows it is possible to be sumptuous and simple at the same time.

Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals -- for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.

Earth's noblest thing -- a woman perfected.

you seldom hear, at a funeral, a friend of the deceased saying, "What do you expect, she wore L'Heure Bleue

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

Everyone looks like they've just stepped out of a Dante Gabriel Rossetti painting that he never got around to finishing because even he knew it was too over the top. It

The music brought us what it seemed / We had long desired, but in a form / so rarefied there was no emptiness of sensation

Soft and sun-warm, see her glide

A chest out to here and legs that go all the way down to the floor.

Occasionally, Charles and Maude would host a dinner party where they would come together as Husband and Wife, and on such occasions I would be brought down and passed around from couple to couple like a Fabergé egg they'd purchased from a descendant of the last Russian Tsar.

Evolution by means of natural selection (or indeed any kind of selection—natural or unnatural) provides the most beautiful, elegant explanation in all of science.

When there are multiple solutions to a problem, choose the simplest one.

It's really complicated to make something simple but very simple to make something complicated.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness...

Sometimes a girl has to be like the snow, beautiful, but cold.