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Grace & Elegance Quotes
The most loved quotes on grace & elegance, gathered from writers, thinkers and leaders.
For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
An all-white space has a purity that is refreshing and serene.
A women's greatest asset is her beauty.
Majesty is a thing of beauty to behold, whatever the particular enterprise.
Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.
A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality.
My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!
A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.
To me, design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort - so you can get on with the things that matter.
Freedom is what beauty feels like when it can most express itself.
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.
Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter.
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
A woman can slip on a pair of embellished cage heels one night and a pair of streamlined, lightweight sneakers the next day. The beauty of modern luxury is the absence of rules.
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'
Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
Even if I am going to an event or a wedding, I try to just look effortless. The more effortless you look, the more chic you look.
Integrity reveals beauty.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way.
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Knowing how to dress is an art.
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
An embellished top with slim pants is great, even for a wedding.
A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
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.
I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.