Quotes About Elegance

John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the country: a handsome, witty president, an elegant first lady, and two adorable young children.

What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

So tall and lithe in his suede and leather outfit. So utterly gorgeous it almost ached to look at him.

There is absolutely nothing monstrous about being a vampire. In fact, it's quite beautiful.

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.

Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

Be a girl with mind, a woman with attitude and a lady with class.

Keep it simple, don't over do your self. Because simple is classy, and overdoing it looks trashy.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

Be a girl with a mind, a bi... with an attitude, and a lady with class.

You watched these people go through their lives and just had a feeling that they existed outside the usual laws of nature; that there was no other group so handsome, so engaged.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!

In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet.

Like a book, like a house, the quality of a salon, Mme de Guermantes quite rightly thought, depended essentially on what you excluded.

Erect, isolated, having at her side her husband and myself, the Duchesse stood on the left of the staircase, already wrapped in her Tiepolo cloak, the collar fastened by the clasp of rubies, being devoured by the eyes of women and of men seeking to chance upon the secret of her elegance and her beauty.

partiellement revêtue d'acajou, où, dès la première

had placed myself on the wrong side of her, she pivoted round me so skillfully that I found her arm resting on my own and fell quite naturally into her rhythm of precise and noble deportment. I yielded to this all the more readily because the Guermantes attached no more importance to it than a truly learned man does to his learning, with the result that one is less intimidated in his company than in that of an ignoramus;

opted in favour of simplicity, the arts, and magnanimity

But the words of Saint-Loup did not displease me since they recalled that pretentiousness is closely allied to stupidity and that simplicity has a subtle but agreeable flavour.

Il étreignait ses seins métalliques et attachait sa bouche sur ses lèvres d'un violet sombre.

La giornata era bellissima, smaltata e netta. Niente pareva lasciato al caso: punte e spigoli, tetti e antenne, grondaie e comignoli, apici d'abete e cime imbiancate. Come in una tavola fiamminga l'acuto sovrastava qualunque possibile rotondità. E pareva consigliasse di mirare in alto verso il turchese compatto del cielo, senza un sole che potesse sbiadirlo, né un volo d'uccello che potesse macchiarlo.