Quotes About Elegance

Moog embodies a sound luxury like no other.

Luxury and style have been key elements in all my projects.

By nature, I am very simple. It's a very big luxury to be simple.

Luxury and elegance can be affordable, and I think a MUST!

Celine Dion, she's magnificent. She has the voice of an angel.

Lipstick is the easiest way to dress up without doing a lot, but it's hard to maintain, so I always opt for nudes if I'm going out for a long time.

I always keep my makeup really simple.

I really love women that manage to be amazing in their age.

Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.

He was standing holding the door to the stairs open with an arm that was entirely hidden inside an immense blue-and-silver sleeve. His feet, on the bottom stair, were standing inside the top half of a gigantic blue-and-silver jacket. Howl's other arm did not come anywhere near the other huge sleeve. Sophie could see that arm in outline, making bulging gestures under a vast frill of collar. Behind Howl, the stairs were full of blue-and-silver suit trailing back all the way to his bedroom.

We turned into the rose garden where the pruned bushes appeared as piles of dead twigs, but the elaborate borders of box that surrounded them in sinuous Elizabethan patterns twisted in and out of the moonlight, showing here silver, there black. A dozen times I would have lingered—a single ivy leaf turned at an angle to catch the moonlight perfectly; a sudden view of the great oak tree, etched with inhuman clarity against the pale sky—but I could not stop.

red marble drawing-room, where an

Decorative gestures add romance to a life.

It's a Cadillac all right." "The Rolls-Royce of automobiles," Ottum

I like clearing my arm from the folds of the garment to look at my watch. The simple act of checking the time is transformed by this flourish. Decorative gestures add romance to a life.

to hell with anything unrefined has always been my motto

superb design. Many readers have

You'll come home to a clean, fresh house that will make you feel like the queen's own cleaning staff has come through your house." Or "You'll be wearing the tux you got married in within a few weeks!" Can you see how this kind of language is more motivating than "Your house will be clean" or "You'll lose weight"?

They all shared a certain coolness, a cruel, mannered charm which was not modern in the least but had the strange cold breath of the ancient world : they were magnificent creatures, such eyes, such hands, such looks - sic oculos, sic ille manus, sic ora ferebat.

Though Julian could be marvelously kind in difficult circumstances of all sorts, I sometimes got the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture.

All her grace was in her vagueness. Her voice was soft, her manner languid, her features blurred and dreamy.

Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.

She was a masterpiece of composure; nothing ever ruffled her or made her upset, and though she was not beautiful her calmness had the magnetic pull of beauty- a stillness so powerful that the molecules realigned themselves around her when she came into a room. Like a fashion drawing come to life, she turned heads wherever she went, gliding along obliviously without appearing to notice the turbulence she created in her wake.

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before