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Quotes About Elegance

The living room had that depressing look of expensive bad taste.
~ William March
If Sade's books are the kind which the French inelegantly describe as needing to be read with one hand, it is a sensible precaution to hold a sick-bowl in the other.
~ David Coward
The art of love? It's knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.
~ David Foenkinos
Charm took effect, and even progressed. Markus came out of it elegantly. He was smiling with his least Swedish smile possible, almost a kind of Spanish smile. He strung out some tasty anecdotes, skillfully mixed in cultural and personal references, successfully managed transitions from the intimate to the general. He gracefully unfurled a fine piece of engineering known as "man of the world.
~ David Foenkinos
elle était si belle...de cette beauté à mettre des points de suspension partout.
~ David Foenkinos
Therein lies the magic of our paradoxes: the situation was so uncomfortable that he pulled through with elegance.
~ David Foenkinos
Under the blanket the outline of her body was slender and displayed a certain innocence, a precious quality far more significant than the elegance of her form. She seemed to radiate kindness and essential goodness, and Darby, trying to measure the value of her, told himself it was immeasurable.
~ David Goodis
SS uniform was black and elegant
~ David Irving
Making a game, writing code, for Carmack, was increasingly becoming an exercise in elegance: how to write something that achieved the desired effect in the cleanest way possible.
~ David Kushner
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~ David Lebovitz
Da Rosa for pots of Christine Ferber's confitures and oval pats of handmade butter from Jean-Yves Bordier. She must
~ David Lebovitz
In France, being exigeant, or discriminating, is considered a positive quality,
~ David Lebovitz
After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.
~ Christian Dior
I would hate for someone to look at my shoes and say, 'Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!'
~ Christian Louboutin
When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.
~ Leo Frankowski
Few would dispute with the rose her claim to be the queen of flowers, for where is her equal to be found? Is she not God's masterpiece?
~ Patience Strong
Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.
~ Rita Mae Brown
God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.
~ George MacDonald
God always takes the simplest way.
~ Albert Einstein
I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.
~ Diana Vreeland
Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
~ Patricia Velasquez
My God, Bobby Fischer plays so simply
~ Alexey Suetin
I thought it was very elegant, a wonderful opening. The vegans seemed so surprised-God knows what they get to eat.
~ Gael Greene