Quotes About Elegance

Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream.

There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.

I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect.

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

Perfection would be something that you see in 'Architectural Digest.'

Hugo Boss is one of those brands that fits me perfectly.

A perfectly fitted sheath dress that can take you from day to night is something that every woman should have in her closet. You can't go wrong with black, but a little bit of color is nice. I love a lot of color, personally. You can accessorize a sheath dress. Look at how Michelle Obama accessorizes clothes to make them her own.

When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can take place.

My favourite performances are by actresses like Bette Davis in 'All About Eve' or Gena Rowlands in pretty much anything - performances that have nothing to do with age.

Something about the genre of period drama feels so quintessentially British.

The '20s are a very interesting period to me.

When all the laces are undone, when all the petticoats have fallen, the woman is dressed only in her perfume.

Seen through the gold of old Scotch, life seems more beautiful.

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

Il faut assigner le premier rang à la Beauté, qui est identique avec le Bien et dont dérive l'Intelligence qui est belle par elle-même.

It's chic to be shy.

A man must have a less than ordinary share of sense that would furnish such plain and common rooms with silver-footed couches and purple coverlets and gold and silver plate.

Wherever there is number, there is beauty.

Nail it, and it's astounding how exciting simplicity can be.

Reminiscence rides a serene mare with a fluffy duke at the bridle.

She's the only fabulous thing in the world of echoes.

Ma consolation, c'est de penser aux femmes que j'ai connues, aujourd'hui qu'il n'y a plus d'élegance

A beautiful thing is never perfect.

Great mansions have slippery doors.