Quotes About Elegance

Surround yourself with beauty and positivity.

It is wonderful to dance with the moon under the twinkling starlight!

Every pearl of your necklace touches my heart like a fresh flower of joy.

Passion is the most glamorous outfit not the most modern fashion.

The highest form of wisdom is often hidden in simplicity.

Age can't dull the beauty of life that reflects and radiates from within.

The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE

Everywhere, I'm looking to reach elegance and intelligence.

Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.

Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.

To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.

Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.

Unless you have a feeling for that secret knowledge that modest things can be more beautiful than anything expensive, you will never have style.

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

I was already refusing to have taste. I forbade myself to have it. I knew that the cultivation of it would have not refined me but softened me.

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

A heavy morning of audiences had neither tired nor depressed him. In a black cassock with no decoration, his neck enclosed in a Roman collar, but at ease, he appeared young, slender, elegant, above all available, lively, calm, in possession of himself and also of that French which he evidently enjoyed speaking, unfolding it like a roll of cloth, rather slowly.

Polaire! The agitating and agitated Polaire! The tiny slip of a woman that you know, with the waist slender to the point of pain, of screaming out loud, of breaking in two, in a spasmically tight bodice, the prettiest slimness ...

Elle flotte, elle hésite; en un mot, elle est femme." "(She floats, she hesitates; in a word, she's a woman.)

Pretty as a painting, but thorny as a rose.

Tall, with an erect, stately, equestrian bearing, the lady possessed an esoteric beauty. If botanic, she'd be a night-blooming cereus. She was peerless as a lady in a sonnet. Or a willowy figure who'd leapt to life and stepped forth from the pages of Godey's Lady's Book. If Allegra Trout hadn't been a medium, she'd have been a fashion plate, or priestess.

La clarté est la souveraine politesse de qui manie une plume . (Clarity is the sovereign politeness of the one who wields a pen.)

Jane circled the mansion, passing door after door, all too la-di-da for comfort.

Snooty high heels.