Quotes about Elegance
Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury; it was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.
— Edith Wharton
Beden hiçbir engebe göstermeyen ve gözü bozmayan 'pürüzsüz yüzeyler' içerdiÄŸinde 'narin' olur.
— Edmund Burke
Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
— Albert Einstein
I guess because I came to it later in life, I realized, 'Oh, going to a fashion show is like going to the opening of Degas at the Met or going to see Swan Lake.'
— Kerry Washington
I suppose there is no more counterintuitive spiritual idea than the possibility that God might actually use and find necessary what we fear, avoid, deny, and deem unworthy. This is what I mean by the "integration of the negative." Yet I believe this is the core of Jesus's revolutionary Good News, Paul's deep experience, and the central insight that Francis and Clare lived out with such simple elegance.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The Flower that smells the sweetest is Shy and Lowly.
— William Wordsworth
Character. Intelligence. Strength. Style. That makes beauty.
— Diane von Furstenberg
Wisdom is an ornament of grace to the soul.
— Elizabeth George
Half light, half shade,She stood, a sight to make an old man young.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I was always intrigued by the idea of bringing things together that are considered taboo or risque and bringing them together with something of high elegance and sophistication.
— Dita Von Teese
He watched her now, peeling away from her great-aunts. Even with the fake smile, she was the most beautiful woman in the room, with her long dark hair, flawless skin, and wide green eyes. She was long-legged, with curves in all the right places. But that wasn't why she'd dug so deeply under his skin. No, it was her feisty spirit that drew him most. The way her eyes sparked with emotion. The way she stood up for herself and those she cared about. Layla was flat-out amazing.
— Denise Hunter