Quotes About Elegance

who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty? It was enough to watch him win, to see the soles of his feet flashing as they kicked up sand, or the rise and fall of his shoulders as he pulled through the salt. It was enough. I

Le soleil, ruisselant dans le bureau sous les stores baissés, taille dans la fumée des cigares une coupe oblique semblable à de la soie mouillée.

God's version of flowers and chocolates and candlelight dinners comes in the form of sunsets and falling stars, moonlight on lakes and cricket

You are radiant this evening. You are absolutely breathtaking.

There is nothing so inspiring to a man as a beautiful woman.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty

Lizards flashed up the pine-trunks like living emerald necklaces.

His name was Captain Montague. He had broken his leg some time before and so had been unfit for active service till then. A kind of phosphorescent pale elegance about his face. A delicate, gallant moustache. He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

that slow and beautiful decay which flings crowns underfoot to star the earth with fallen glories

Catherine wore a long black silk dress. The court was still in mourning for the dead king

Tall and svelte, he oozed sophistication and was "very pleasant in the sight of gentlewomen.

horse-drawn litter covered with velvet and fringed with gold and silk, as well as a coach

statuesque,'" my aunt had

I am profoundly enchanted by the flowing complexity in you.

You dazzled me. There is nothing in the world so bright and delicate.

We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us—and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject.

Although the style of each varied in crudity, the subjects of the paintings were relatively similar: camellias floating in bowls of water, azaleas tortured into ambitious flower arrangements, magnolias that looked like white windmills.

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

There has always been an elegance to the application of excellence.

There is one art, no more, no less, to do all things with artlessness.

Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.

A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.