Quotes About Elegance

Actresses are just professionally lovely, aren't they?

I was much more interested by clothes when I was younger. I'm about being discreet. What they call the French touch, whatever that means. Low profile and somehow elegant without being flashy.

I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.

I love black. Anything black transforms lives in a profound way, particularly for women.

I like clean-cut, very proper, very elegant looks.

My favourite dance is the Foxtrot. It's a proper dance with proper music. It has class.

When it comes to my style, I'm a proper Italian woman of the modern age!

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

The Homburg makes a man look prosperous.

Couture is also a term used for top-of-the-range, to-order clothing - but not to the level of intricacy and expense as haute couture. And without the 'haute', the word 'couture' itself isn't protected.

Brenda descended the great staircase step by step through alternations of dusk and rainbow.

He was entrancing, with that epicene beauty which in extreme youth sings aloud for love and withers at the first cold wind.

A wonderfully congenial group who live by a unique set of social standards. According to their rules, any sin is acceptable provided it is carried off in good taste.

Algernon Stitch was standing in the hall; his bowler hat was on his head; his right hand, grasping a crimson, royally emblazoned dispatch case, emerged from the left sleeve of his overcoat; his other hand burrowed petulantly in his breast pocket. An umbrella under his left arm further inconvenienced him. He spoke indistinctly, for he was holding a folded copy of the morning paper between his teeth. "Can't get it on," he seemed to say.

a handsome Frenchwoman abounding in commercial good nature.

her youth passed in renaissance glory

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him

You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.

She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.

When a girl feels that she's perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That's charm

She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.

I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.