Quotes about Elegance

Character. Intelligence. Strength. Style. That makes beauty.

Wisdom is an ornament of grace to the soul.

Half light, half shade,She stood, a sight to make an old man young.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

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.

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.

I've been working seriously in giving fashion a place that it deserves.

The Masters is poetry to me.

There was, when I came to New York in the 1970s, no more profound or moving experience than MoMA, an almost perfect piece of 20th Century modernist expression, existing in an extraordinary balance - modestly, functionally, elegantly - with the extraordinary art it held. This place changed my life. I was transformed by every visit.

I am a thing of beauty.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.