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Quotes About Elegance

Charm is more than beauty.
~ Yiddish Proverb
The purpose of life is to watch and experience living. To enjoy living every moment of it. And to live in environments, which are calm, quiet, slow, sophisticated, elegant. Just to be. Whether you are naked or you have a golden robe on you, that doesn't make any difference. The ideal purpose of your life is that you are grateful - great and full - that you are alive, and you enjoy it.
~ Yogi Bhajan
The truly correct proof is one that strikes a harmonious balance between strength and flexibility. There are plenty of proofs that are technically correct but are messy and inelegant or counterintuitive. But it's not something you can put into words — explaining why a formula is beautiful is like trying to explain why the stars are beautiful.
~ Yôko Ogawa
He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die young—and if possible free of all pain? A graceful death—as a richly patterned kimono, thrown carelessly across a polished table, slides unobtrusively down into the darkness of the floor beneath. A death marked by elegance.
~ Yukio Mishima
Her nose was perfect; her lips exquisite. Like a master placing a go stone on the board after long deliberation, he placed the details of her beauty one by one in the misty dark and drew back to savour them.
~ Yukio Mishima
Cay buruktu. Bilirsiniz, buruk olur tadi yuceligin.
~ Yukio Mishima
a tired mouse-grey tie never works with an ash-grey suit.
~ Yukio Mishima
Il mondo di certo finirà in rovina, però prima che ciò avvenga per alcuni attimi si materializzeranno splendide movenze che in un altrettanto breve intervallo scompariranno.
~ Yukio Mishima
Kiyoaki's pride was hurt. Satoko, with a boldness that might be construed as unfeminine, had pointed out the dog's corpse, ignoring its ominous implications. She had adopted a suitably pleasant and straightforward tone of voice, which bore witness to her elegant upbringing; she had the freshness of ripe fruit in a crystal bowl. Kiyoaki was ashamed of his hesitation, and felt cowed by Satoko's capacity for directness.
~ Yukio Mishima
Tú eres un verdadero hombre, ¿por qué los hombres no poseen tu elegancia y dignidad? Cualquier hombre, por fascinante que pueda ser, acaba convirtiéndose en ridículo a causa de su deseo sexual.
~ Yukio Mishima
The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
~ Yves Saint Laurent
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery
~ Yves Saint Laurent
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
~ Yves Saint Laurent
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
~ Yves Saint Laurent
Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
~ Yves Saint Laurent
I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
~ Yves Saint Laurent
Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
~ Yves Saint Laurent
The most beautiful makeup for a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
~ Yves St. Laurent
Good design is as little design as possible.
~ Yvon Chouinard
In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. Studying
~ Yvon Chouinard
She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.
~ Zadie Smith
She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.
~ Zadie Smith
Death is the only real elegance.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
Lady Sylvia flapped across the room like an opaque protoplasm propelling itself over a sand-bank.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald