Quotes About Elegance

it perished with beautiful reluctance, like an evening star—

His gait was soundless, like the bird

The motions of the dipping birds

She dropt as softly as a star From out my summer's eve;

A horror so refined

Vatican Palace…because in Venturi's words, 'Less is

Love that Ritz!" he said. "A lot of folks swear by the Crescent Court, but it has nothing on the Ritz. Such a classic. And do you know that they have their own nightly guacamologist? How divine is that?

Under the thousand crystal candelabras I danced with ten elderly gentlemen who had nothing to say but did not let that stop them. I answered only, Indeed and Oh yes and Do you think so?

At the balls he took me to there were many beautiful young women who didn't say a word. They answered every question with a shrug or a smile. If champagne got spilt down their dresses they only sighed; when the full moon slid out from behind the castle they watched it in silence. I could not understand it. Had they sold their voices too? Even their bodies were silent, always upright, never loosening their lines. They walked like letters on a page.

youre beautiful', he said without grandiloquence. 'that's the least of it', she replied politely.

Ah, my princess. Noble steed. How does the morning find you both?

I miss my suits...

pretty girl

Il faut que tu les regardent en ayant l'air de dire : « je n'ai jamais vu plus belle que vous».

En déchiffrant la Berceuse, mes doigts révélaient du velouté, de la rondeur ; le son naissait et mourait, ductile, facile ; rien ne me coûtait.

Arcane House she was highly unlikely to

Le Bal du comte d'Orgel.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman.

Beauty is the feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.

My knitting is simple", he said again. Ï can make anything you want with it, but it will always be simple.

He didn't just want pretty or hot. He wanted beautiful.

Oh my boy, only men in bow ties and Andrew Christian underwear can bring me my mimosas.

He was so lovely, so gorgeous, Dawson couldn't put a name to how beautiful he was—not divinely, not spectacularly, not beautifully. He just danced. He looked like a soul clothed in muscle.