elegance quotes

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

Water’s never clumsy.

I’m big on what’s in good taste.

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

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears – I appreciate the details.

When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing – if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

My mother was a very natural woman. She never spoiled herself, never wore make-up, and wore modest jewellery, but she always had a few special items for when she wanted to feel like a lady. One of those special items – and I remember it because it seemed so elegant – was her Guerlain powder.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Elegance is refusal.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.