Quotes About Elegance

clipped account of a mannered life, a life rich with achievement, grace, respect.

Such a pretty pair you make, like matched horses in my stables.

With all the conveniences and clean simplicity we lived in, people had lost a lot of polish.

I'd rather drink my dinner out of a martini glass and follow it up with a cosmopolitan chaser.

She wore no jewellery, just her wedding ring.

Why are black holes so different from all other objects in the macroscopic Universe? Why are they, and they alone, so elegantly simple? If I knew the answer, it would probably tell me something very deep about the nature of physical laws. But I don't know.

She looked as if she were a vampire about to check the time—with a sundial.

Horses have powerful legs- but that doesn't mean they're prima ballerinas. Elianna to Mariketa.

I think you are just like this house, Evangeline. Rich and fine on the outside, but no one's got a clue what's going on inside.

Oh, French is my favorite language. Ask fucking anybody.

Blue water extends in rows of gentle ripples to a thin line of barely visible cottonwoods on the far side. The wind dies to a whisper and it's quiet, almost perfectly still except for the snap of grasshoppers leaping from the weeds. To the west the mountains rise suddenly, almost violently from the sandy brown of the plains, layered silhouettes of blue and green and gray rising to a turquoise sky. My heart is filled with the beauty of it all.

You're magnificent," he says.

toward the end she was she was wearing nothing but seven beads, four of them sweat

those shyest and sweetest of woodland blooms. . .

He examined the contents of the closets and selected an elegant suit of clothing. Strangely enough, everything about it was shaggy, although so new and beautiful, and he sighed with contentment to realize that he could now be finely dressed and still be the shaggy man.

It seems strange, said he, as he watched the Tin Woodman work, that my left leg should be the most elegant and substantial part of me. That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow. and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed. Spoken like a philosopher! cried the Woggle-Bug

My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you're beauty and elegance.

The only Romantic thing left in life is a hat.

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

It seems so lucky to just to have the right of telling you with all my might, you're beautiful tonight.

There's no other way to look at you. You're the definition of beauty.

A beautiful woman should wear beauty to her bed.

I looked silently at her lips. All women are lips, all lips. Some are pink and firmly round: a ring, a tender guardrail from the whole world. And then there are these ones: a second ago they weren't here, and just now — like a knife-slit — they are here, still dripping sweet blood.

All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.