Quotes About Elegant

Bow ties are cool.

In fact, I have quite a nice little library here in my gladiator's cubby." He reached into a basket and produced a scroll with ornately carved and gilded handles. "That must be quite a book, to justify such an elegant scroll," said Gaius. "Oh, it is. This is a copy of my father's private war journal, a daybook where he recorded his thoughts while he was stuck in darkest Pannonia. Marcus Aurelius, to Himself, I call it.

She felt that, in London, the job would have had to be swift and anonymous, but out here she sensed she had more time to be elegant and thorough.

One of the reasons that fascism ascended to power so quickly was that it was considered socially elegant to support this new way of government.

Apple has always been, and always will be, a hardware-first company. It produces beautiful devices with elegant designs and humane operating-system software.

Reba is very, very close to everyone around her. She's a classy lady.

she was always the perfect host—

Once you get into the problem... you see that it's complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That's where most people stop, and the solutions tend to work for a while. But the really great person will keep going, find the underlying problem, and come up with an elegant solution that works on every level.

Curran could be described in many ways: dangerous, powerful . . . insufferable. "Elegant" usually wasn't one of the adjectives used, and as he walked next to me, I wished I had a camera so I could commemorate the moment. And then blackmail him with it.

well-worn Victorian settee covered in burgundy sateen

describing Aaron, hero's brother] His hair was shorter and lighter, and his eyes were more green than blue. And even though he was tall, he wasn't quite super-sized. He was more sculpted, more … elegant. more slender and beautiful and less raw-boned. Less Stone Age and more Bronze Age—but till the kind of man who enjoyed living in a cave.

My cats are really sassy and sophisticated, but most importantly, they are picky.

I don't think the Playboy brand has changed much at all - it's always been sophisticated and aspirational.

Firewyrms (I refuse to dignify those things by calling them dragons; real dragons should be elegant reptilian predators, not sea slugs with wings that vomit acid).

If I did I didn't know it. What's it like, velvet?' 'Well, Lu, velvet is like the world was just born. Clean and new and so smooth.

Both of them were as athletic and as sleek as otters.

They use the word nice not synonymously with agreeable, attractive, or pleasant—qualities they strongly favor—but in an older sense, meaning fastidiously careful, delicate, precise, or overly refined. Too much of this kind of nice looks wrong to them, like a farmer mowing hay in a tuxedo.

Neat, not gaudy.

I like classics but I always add a twist because I don't like to think of my clothes as classic.

I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.

I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn't grasp what they're really thinking. I mean, Grace Kelly always looked impossibly glamorous, yet you could always see there was something behind her eyes.

Peonies are beautiful perennials. A classic, really. Every garden should have them. They're dependable, have a timeless, elegant beauty and will bloom with very little attention. He was silent for a moment while she switched branches and he followed. Like you