Quotes About Elegance

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

One woman, however, was spared. Both Miran and his father asked for the hand of the famously beautiful Lutf un-Nissa. 'But she declined and sent this reply: "having ridden an elephant before, I cannot now agree to ride an ass."'87

London, thou art the flower of Cities all.

To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

Cats are not sentimental and they never slobber.

Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

Only a few of Newton's contemporaries read the Principia with comprehension, and following generations chose to translate it into a more transparent, if less elegant, combination of algebra and the Newton-Leibniz calculus.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Grace is rhwe absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incogruity.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.

She lived in a sort of ramshackle magnificence.

The beauty isn't in the jewel itself, but in the way the light shines through it.

In the simple way of the wild daisies that grew in the grass of the pasture behind our home she offered the beauty of herself without pretension.

She removed her gloves and touched the satin shoulder

no smell of piss or green beans. That was how you could tell for sure it was an upscale old-age joint. It smelled instead like a summer meadow, it smelled of daisies, it smelled like a preview of coming attractions.

A cat pours his body on the floor like water.

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.