Quotes About Elegance

Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury; it was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.

The extravagance in dress—" Miss Jackson began. "Sillerton took me to the first night of the Opera, and I can only tell you that Jane Merry's dress was the only one I recognised from last year; and even that had had the front panel changed. Yet I know she got it out from Worth only two years ago, because my seamstress always goes in to make over her Paris dresses before she wears them.

But his marital education had since made strides, and he now knew that a disregard for money may imply not the willingness to get on without it but merely a blind confidence that it will somehow be provided. If Undine, like the lilies of the field, took no care, it was not because her wants were as few but because she assumed that care would be taken for her by those whose privilege it was to enable her to unite floral insouciance with Sheban elegance.

Couples were already gliding over the floor beyond: the light of the wax candles fell on revolving tulle skirts, on girlish heads wreathed with modest blossoms, on the dashing aigrettes and ornaments of the young married women's coiffures, and on the glitter of highly glazed shirt-fronts and fresh glacé gloves.

The great has terror for its basis... the beautiful is founded on mere positive pleasure...

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

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Guy believed everything in sex should be done slowly so as not to scare the wildlife and to ensure his own natural grace and poise.

Kecantikan adalah sesuatu yang dapat diapresiasi oleh orang lain.

How elegant! how choice! how gay! To think one doesn't have to pay. There is sound of falling tears; It comes from nowhere to the ears. Some tiny creature, filled with wrath, Is coming nearer on the path.

Snobbery is one of the things one should be most discriminating about

observe everything . . . ?trust nobody . . . ?despise your mother . . . ?effort is vulgar . . . ?things were better in the eighteenth century.

a genius of savoir faire

promising, like a silver flute lying on a page of music.

Agenouillés, ils étaient ridicules, ils étaient fiers et beaux, et vivre était sublime.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.

Nature never remembers, that's why she's beautiful.

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen.

Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

But now secure the painted vessel glides,   The sun-beams trembling on the floating tides:   While melting music steals upon the sky,   And soften'd sounds along the waters die; 50   Smooth flow the waves, the Zephyrs gently play,   Belinda smil'd, and all the world was gay.