Quotes About Elegance

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Mrs Harris was sixtyish, small and wiry, with cheeks like frosted apples, and naughty little eyes.

Less is more, more or less.

Guy cradled his tux, stroking it, running his fingers incestuously over the satin stripe on the trousers. There is a satisfaction that only superb clothing can offer, the joy of man raising himself from the mud, vindicating evolution. Life cannot lack purpose if a tuxedo exists—this is the obvious reply to the Samuel Beckett canon.

There was a debauched kind of elegance to the British bands: they had great haircuts, they wore velvets and satins, and they were cohesive not only in their musical style, but in their attire and personas. They had individual identities but also a band identity----band members were stylish in a way that complemented one another.

You can never be too subtle, and you can never be too simple.

Nous sommes les Ingénues, Aux bandeaux plats, à l'œil bleu, Qui vivons, presque inconnues, Dans les romans qu'on lit peu.

One manor house remained unoccupied and unsold. It sat on a small rise, a menacing, ugly house, a barrow, deposited and deserted by some 1920's millionaire and left there to testify to the power of money to create a permanent and quarrelsome unloveliness.

Without any further ceremony, Denys tipped his hat to me, and then the two men moved off down the road, turning a corner and passing out of sight. They might have been headed to another party, or to white steeds waiting to whisk them off to an enchanted palace. I would have believed a magic carpet as well, or any storybook ending. They were that lovely, and now they were gone. —

The general and his beautiful wife

few hours later, when Dynasty danced onto the track, I felt my pulse jump. Her coat gleamed. Her steps were high and springing and confident. She didn't look like the six-year-old mare D had turned over to me months before, but like a queen.

What will you do now?" "Live until it gives me away, of course. And drink only the best champagne. There's not time for anything else." His face was delicate and sensitive-looking, like a well-bred cat's. He also had rich brown eyes that seemed to want to laugh at the idea of sadness or self-pity.

The Philadelphia Story, but

Bint-Anath was approaching, her many-pleated, floor-length sheath floating scarlet around her, her slim shoulders visible under a billowing white flounced cloak, and the long black ringlets of her wig already glistening with melted wax... She was like a goddess, like Hathor herself, moving lightly in the circle of reverence the guests had provided, her pair of massive Shardana guards towering beside her and her exquisitely gowned and painted retinue behind.

Woman, the sweetest name That man can breathe, or flattering language frame, Who art thou?

Y nos arrancamos del Municipal como chicas reacias a la cultura de salón. Igual fue bonito conocer estas elegancias, dije tomando a la Gladucha del brazo. Pero nosotras somos más folclóricas, Pedrín. Y rockeras, agregué con una mirada rebelde. Y cumbiancheras, acentuó mi reina con su risa de cascabel que me sigue sonando en el ayer, tan fresca y libertaria como una cascada de pájaros.

The ambition should always be to play an elegant game.

A lovely lady, garmented in lightFrom her own beauty.

Take up something that you know will never bring you any returns except pleasure—in other words, allow yourself to live the way brilliant eighteenth century courtesans lived. Don't be afraid of having a decorative life, even if all the decorations come from you.

Any damn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.

Any damn fool can get complicated. It takes genius to attain simplicity.

I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'

there's something else, something quite beautiful.

Well thought out law is elegant, economical, easy to learn.