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Quotes About Elegance

If a poor house is well kept, or a poor girl well groomed, there is elegance if not beauty. If good people should come upon hard times, why should they immediately give up on themselves?
~ Zicheng Hong
Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste.
~ Kaija Saariaho
Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
~ William Shenstone
But things don't necessarily have to be that expensive to be good. As long as they are expensive enough to last.
~ Daphne Guinness
Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste.
~ William Bernbach
Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit.
~ M. F. K. Fisher
Remain dignified, dress well, be good to other people and you'll be fine.
~ Manolo Blahnik
I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.
~ Mason Cooley
Good shoes and a good scent make the perfect day.
~ Nia Long
When I make a dress that someone wants to put on and somebody else wants to take off, then I know I've got it right. Because when someone looks good on the outside, they'll feel good on the inside.
~ Peter Dundas
A good party is where you enjoy good people, and they taste even better with Champagne.
~ Wilson Mizner
For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.
~ Christopher Ricks
I'm just not very good at glamour... It doesn't come easily to me.
~ Elize Du Toit
Good taste rejects excessive nicety.
~ Francois Fenelon
I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.
~ Helen Hayes
In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.
~ John Steinbeck
Good taste shouldn't have to cost anything extra.
~ Millard Drexler
As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize.
~ Nalini Singh
If only art were as rare as good taste.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney
A la Rothschild, a style I define as many good things used irreverently.
~ Robert Denning
It doesn't matter what you are wearing-if you have good shoes and a good bag, you'll look right.
~ Tamara Mellon
If a good word already exists, there is no need to invent something painful.
~ William Zinsser
When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.
~ Winston Churchill