I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I never appear in public with a soiled conscience, a tarnished honor, threadbare scruples, or an insult that I haven't washed away. I'm always immaculately clean, adorned with independence and frankness. I may not cut a stylish figure, but I hold my soul erect. I wear my deeds as ribbons, my wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.
Edmond RostandTag: morality conscience wit elegance honour
Elegance is not about being noticed, it's about being remembered.
Habeeb AkandeTag: elegance
You must remember, Madame Harris, elegance is in the details.
Lynn SheeneTag: fashion elegance details upper-class
... look treasured
Treasure StitchesThe most pleasant and alluring curve on a woman is the smile
Treasure StitchesTag: humor beauty fashion elegance
Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age.
Anne Graciefabrics doesn't make exquisite dresses, it is the stitches.
Treasure StitchesTag: style fashion elegance clothes dresses sewing
Elegance is an attitude
LonginesTag: elegance
Elegance is timeless
Habeeb AkandeFor us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that the simplicity it displays has been hard won, that it flows from the resolution of demanding technical or natural predicament. Thus we call the Shaker staircase in Pleasant Hill elegant because we know--without ever having constructed one ourselves--that a staircase is a site complexity, and that combinations of treads, risers and banisters rarely approach the sober intelligibility of the Sharkers' work. We deem a modern Swiss house elegant because we not how seamlessly its windows have been joined to their concrete walls, and how neatly the usual clutter of construction has been resolved away. We admire starkly simple works that we intuit would, without immense effort, have appeared very complicated. (p 209)
Alain de BottonTag: complexity elegance simplicity intuition architecture design complicated construction
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