Quotes about Elegance

Anon they move in perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood of flutes and soft recorders.

Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreath'd.

A bevy of fair women.

It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

I look to women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth.

How goodness heightens beauty!

She dabbed at her eyes. 'You'd be bored, Henry. An unfinished bottle of champagne found in an old cupboard with all the sparkle gone …' The jaded phrase was worthy of a Haymarket author.

She was a little lady with snow-white hair beautifully wavy and thick, and carefully arranged in becoming puffs and coils. Beneath it was an almost girlish face, pink-cheeked and sweet-lipped, with big soft brown eyes and dimples . . . actually dimples. She wore a very dainty gown of cream muslin with pale-hued roses on it . . . a gown which would have seemed ridiculously juvenile on most women of her age, but which suited Miss Lavendar so perfectly that you never thought about it all.

I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

True refinement seeks simplicity.