Quotes About Elegance

Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.

This was his healthy state and it made him cheerful, pleasant, and very attractive to intelligent men and to all women. In this state he considered that he would one day accomplish some quiet subtle thing that the elect would deem worthy and, passing on, would join the dimmer stars in a nebulous, indeterminate heaven halfway between death and immortality.

Oh-oh-oh-oh Other flamingos than me

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

She yawned gracefully in my face.

It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound for the Champs-Elysees, strapped now into a long truck and simply shaking with laughter-like a lovely person in an undignified position yet confident none the less of being lovely.

Like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars

She was dressed in pale green, and a gold ribbon bound back her dark, straight hair like a crown.

beautiful girls have throats instead of necks.

Ils sont arrivés au coucher du soleil, et pendant que nous naviguions parmi des centaines d'invités en effervescence, Daisy faisait jouer dans un murmure les sortilèges de sa voix.

mas carregava o excesso de carne com sensualidade, como algumas mulheres.

A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsby's house, making the night fine as before, and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.

Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body—

He lit Daisy's cigarette from a trembling match, and sat down with her on a couch far across the room, where there was no light save what the gleaming floor bounced in from the hall.

there are only a few obvious things that I notice as primarily beautiful: women, spring evenings, music at night, the sea;

To Toot One's Own Horn Is Unattractive.

She sat there admiring the beauty of the light amber fluid in the clear bottle, the way the condensation on the Miller bottle ran down the black and gold label, like it was a fine piece of art. That was the problem with alcohol. It was so beautiful to look at, how could you resist it? And what kind of place could be more inviting and seductive than a truly elegant cocktail bar?

Remember, Sookie, nothing says more about a family than good silver and real pearls. The rest is just fluff.

Sir George Sansom (1883–1965) defined them as "little drops of poetic essence.

Japanese for simplicity and taking pleasure in imperfections

Don't you have a pair of pearls?

Thought can be lofty without being elegant, but to the extent it lacks elegance it will have less effect on others. Force without finesse is mere mass.

A concisão é a luxúria do pensamento.

If I'm going to a fancy event, I try to be princess-like.