Quotes About Elegance

Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.

The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.

I like Princess Kate. I think her style is really great. She's really, really classy and always really sophisticated.

An embellished top with slim pants is great, even for a wedding.

It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.

I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.

Great French design is often about unexpected touches.

My mum is great for keeping hold of old classics - pieces of clothing that never age and never go out of fashion. She also says, 'Make sure you always smile - it makes everything look better!'

Tranquility is the Truth, Truth is beauty beauty is happiness and bliss is divine

The song of the curved line is called happiness.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which.

Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.

Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

It is magnificent, but it is not war.

Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.

Ann Sothern's dressing room...was unbelievably lush and beautiful. More elegant than many homes I've been in.

When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.

It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.

The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand.

....basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste.