Quotes About Elegance

Es decir, que está debe ser la forma de hospitalidad de la gente verdaderamente elegante. Recibir al visitante y, a continuación, olvidarse de él. Y por añadidura, disponer de manera desordenada alrededor del visitante delicioso sake y exóticos manjares. No hay baile ni música preparados con la evidente finalidad de dar la bienvenida al visitante... Este, por su parte, no tiene necesidad de poner una cara especial para demostrar ex profeso su admiración.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

What? A character almost as awful as Phaedre, and quite as desolate as Antigone, represented by a graceful coquette in point lace and pearls, who will take poison as sweetly as if it were a cup of coffee, and will die with elaborate care not to tumble her train? Preposterous!

Run slowly, horses of the night.

Beauty is a fragile gift.

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when."

magnificent canyon of fashion.

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when".

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

Just like James fucking Bond.

It had been like watching a rose bloom, its soft petals slowly spreading, revealing its beauty bit by bit, then opening at last to claim the sunlight.

I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.

How do you separate a tiger's beauty from its ferocity? Or a cheetah's elegance from the speed of its attack? Achilles was like that -- the beauty and the terror were two sides of a single coin.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.

more perfect than the moon

Champagne, always champagne. Make mine Veuve-Clicquot.

Lois, as fresh as paint in a slim black suit which showed off her figure and flattered her skin, the white camellia of a blameless life at the newest, smartest angle, and the latest bit of nonsense adorning the auburn waves of her hair.

Miss Silver's fire. 'Of course

Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance.