Quotes about Elegance

Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.

She did apparel her apparel, and with the preciousness of her body made it most sumptuous.Sidney.3. To

the elegant structure of the world serving us as a kind of mirror, in which we may behold God, though otherwise invisible.

I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

A felicidade nunca é graciosa.Happiness is never gracious.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

Pare down to the essence, but don't remove poetry. Keep things clean and unencumbered, buut don't sterilize.

I can give you a cup of tea in no time-and you won't meet any bores.

Then the house had been boldly planned with a ball-room, so that, instead of squeezing through a narrow passage to get to it (as at the Chiverses') one marched solemnly down a vista of enfiladed drawing-rooms (the sea-green, the crimson and the bouton d'or), seeing from afar the many-candled lustres reflected in the polished parquetry, and beyond that the depths of a conservatory where camellias and tree-ferns arched their costly foliage over seats of black and gold bamboo.

In this interpretative light Mrs. Grancy acquired the charm which makes some women's faces like a book of which the last page is never turned. There was always something new to read in her eyes.