Quotes About Elegance

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

La Beauté c'est la Mort.

Nothing makes you feel more beautiful than a sari.

Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad.

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

Dinnertime was a formal, nearly a sacred, hour – usually more like two hours. At half past seven they went upstairs to bathe and change into dinner jacket and teagown.

Those wide shoulders and swinging hips were once parts of a winged quality she had –

fifty, ambitiously but unsuccessfully dressed in a black satin

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose by John Singer Sargent.

Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong, resilient, unbreakable. The plum blossom is hardy, fragrant, and elegant.

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.

Big books are old fashioned. Now we focus on quality rather than quantity.

Sweet and kind words are enough as the perfume of all the women of the world.

Attract, Comfort, and Seduce.

The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.

I could've totally cut out your heart before you knew what was happening." "What stopped you?" "I thought Montgomery might've been pissed off at all the blood on the sheets." "Montgomery would never be something as uncouth as pissed off. Annoyed in an icily genteel manner, perhaps.

As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize.

Where's the lace?

She'd never realized how erotic it was to watch a man dress until this precise moment.

When she came in a week later wearing an elegant black jersey dress that caressed her body, he'd said only, "Nice dress, Ms. Baird," and left it at that. Even though that dress made him want to stroke her all over, then push her up against a wall and do things that would make her realize once and for all that he was completely uncivilized under the suits.