Quotes About Elegance

To be ready for a ball, a princess must go to the mall.

Modern ballet costumes are very delicate, and some cannot even be washed at all. These costumes are hung up to air out and sprayed with freshener.

Jennifer Ackerman

London after dark is a different place than in daylight. There is as much hustle-bustle as always, but now the gentry are out and about as well as less salubrious members of society - the inebriated, the ruffians, and the ladies looking to entice a man from the straight and narrow.

Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm.

Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras keeping them warm.

She was fearsome. She was strong. She was beautiful.

I understood that expensive shirts looked better than cheap shirts. The fabric wasn't shiny, no - shiny would be cheap. But it glowed, like there was light coming through from the inside. It was a fucking beautiful shirt, is what I'm saying

Walking in heels while wearing a ball gown was, as it turned out, more difficult than finagling an invitation to a state dinner.

He says, " Ã¢â'¬ËœLovely' is a lovely word that should be used more often.

A lake. A prayer. It's so lovely to be lovely in Private.

I walk through the black Indiana night, under a ceiling of stars, and think about the phrase "elegance and euphoria," and how it describes exactly what I feel with Violet.

Lovely' is a lovely word that should be used more often.

It's so lovely to be lovely in Private.

A lady should never feel anxious about her behavior. The status is bred in the bone. To show anxiety is to lower oneself. Anxiety is vulgar .

My duchess," James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. "She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.

There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.

She had not taken her hat off, and she wore a dark dress of an indecisive color midway between puce and goose dripping.

inlaid in Florentine mosaic, the very flower-stands placed in the recesses of the windows, oozed and sweated with gold. At the four corners of the room were four great lamps placed on pedestals of red marble, to which they were fastened by chains of bronze gilt, that fell with symmetrical grace. And from the ceiling hung three lustres with crystal pendants, streaming with drops of blue and pink light, whose hot glare drew a responding gleam from all the gold in the room.

Il serait beaucoup plus intéressant de comparer cette peinture simplifiée avec les gravures japonaises qui lui ressemblent par leur élégance étrange et leurs taches magnifiques. L'impression première que produit une toile d'Edouard Manet est un peu dure. On n'est pas habitué à voir des traductions aussi simples et aussi sincères de la réalité.

she offered herself to him with that quiet expression which is peculiar to a good-natured courtesan.

He was a young dandy, and his habiliments, even to his gloves, were entirely yellow.

This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies.