Quotes about Elegance
How many women do we know who were continually kissed by Clark Gable, William Powell, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March? Only one: Myrna Loy...
- Lauren Bacall
Woman is the masterpiece.
- Confucius
A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works.
- Miroslav Volf
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
- Oscar Wilde
The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
- Oscar Wilde
I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.
- Oscar Wilde
Genius lasts longer than beauty
- Oscar Wilde
I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
- Oscar Wilde
Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.
- Oscar Wilde
Across the yard, brilliant against the façade of pines beyond, a cardinal shot like a drop of blood.
- Cormac McCarthy
She was like a forest, like the dark interlacing of the oakwood, humming inaudibly with myriad unfolding buds. Meanwhile the birds of desire were asleep in the vast interlaced intricacy of her body.
- DH Lawrence