Quotes About Elegance

Alessandro Baricco

Demoni. Angeli andati a male. Però bellissimi.

Ecco cosa abbiamo raccolto, un frutto ambiguo: la luce bella di un ricordo e il privilegio di una commozione che per sempre ci renderà eleganti, e misteriosi. Voglia il cielo che questo basti a salvarci, per tutto il tempo che ci sarà dato, ancora.

Tutti lo consideravano intelligentissimo, cosa che nella sensibilità comune equivaleva a considerarlo anemico, o daltonico: una malattia inoffensiva ed elegante.

Gli piacque particolarmente venire a sapere che le forme delle lampadine sono infinite, ma sedici sono quelle principali, e per ognuna c'è un nome. Per un'elegante convenzione, sono tutti nomi di regine o principesse. Jasper Gwyn scelse le Caterina de' Medici, perché sembravano lacrime sfuggite a un lampadario.

A single white roes goes with everything, doesn´t it, and it symbolizes purity.

We create the kind of markets we want. If we build elegant infrastructure, we have elegant markets.

And then there was the delicate issue of what to do with one's bottom while one was walking. Some people thought that one could just leave one's bottom to follow one when one was walking. Not so. A mere glance at any glamorous girl would show that the bottom had to be more involved.

La bella figura...it's at the heart of Italian life...it's about doing things beautifully.

I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and continue to unceasingly receive it, from their souls, which are just like yours, lovely Simonetta.

You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.

You posses a quality which can never belong to Mademoiselle Danglars. It is that indefinable charm which is to a woman what perfume is to the flower and flavor to the fruit, for beauty of either is not the only quality we seek.

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

I like perfume and flowers.

Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

How beautiful, the grace of women; how soft their charity.

Death is the mother of beauty," said Henry. "And what is beauty?" "Terror.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

He was a dark and stormy knight. A latter-day rake with eyes the color of emeralds worth a queen's ransom. His smile promised voyages to the moon. And heaven alone knew how many females lay littered in his wake. To a rousing burst of Rachmaninoff, he swept into my London flat one January evening and, with the hauteur of his greeting, captured my virgin heart forever and a day. 'Miss Ellie Simons? My car awaits. Shall we splurge on dinner or parking tickets?

Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Bertrand Russell once said, "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty. . . .

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.