Quotes about Elegance

One must strut, like a swan among geese.

The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

The cake had been done by a lady friend of Mary's. It was simpler than it would have been had she been given more time; but I was finding more and more beauty in simplicity.

Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.

Grace was in all her steps heaven in her eye In every gesture dignity and love.

I remembered what you had said to me on that wonderful evening we first dined together, about the search for beauty being the real secret of life…

had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.

Details are always vulgar

Books are not made for furniture,but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Simplicity and sexiness, that's what people want. At a price that's not outrageous.

A woman's elegance will charm you for days, her beauty will charm you for weeks, her grace will charm you for years, and her virtue will charm you for a lifetime.

I especially like your autumn trees, gracefully letting their leaves fall. That is how I would like to shed my own leaves in this autumn of life, easily and elegantly. Why be so attached to what we are bound to lose anyway? I suppose I mean youth, which has been so present in our conversations.