Quotes About Elegance

The lobby was at once attractive and bleak, a place meant to impress without creating the desire to linger.

Leisure with dignity.

Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

If anything at all, perfection is not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

I never wear flats. My shoes are so high that sometimes when I step out of them, people look around in confusion and ask, "Where'd she go?" and I have to say, "I'm down here.

You've the beat of a dancer to a measure or harmonious rush of a porpoise at the prow where the racers all win easily— like centaurs' legs in tune, as when kettledrums compete; nose rigid and suede nostrils spread, a light left hand on the rein, till well—this is a rhapsody.

No water so still as the dead fountains of Versailles ». No swan, with swart blind look askance and gondoliering legs, so fine as the chintz china one with fawn- brown eyes and toothed gold collar on to show whose bird it was. Lodged in the Louis Fifteenth candelabrum-tree of cockscomb- tinted buttons, dahlias, sea-urchins, and everlastings, it perches on the branching foam of polished sculpture flowers - at ease and tall. The king is dead.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Simple is elegant and extremely efficient.

In real-world Finance, they don't pay for elegance. They pay for power - predictive power.

Good taste consists first upon fitness.

Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.

Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.

Eat at your own as you would the table of a king.

Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.

Prepare your food attractively and serve it nicely.

The French always seemed to be so chic. The food was better, the clothes were better, the makeup was better, the hair was better. Everything was better in France.

Dessert is to a meal what a dress is to a woman.

Nothing is more beautiful than freedom of the body.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.