William Hazlitt Quotes

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far.

I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.

Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.

Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

The word "elegance" is a bit different now.

Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.

It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.

Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.

Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl may be graceful, but an elegant woman must be accomplished and well trained. It is the same with things as with persons; we talk of a graceful tree, but of an elegant house or other building. Animals may be graceful, but they cannot be elegant. The movements of a kitten or a young fawn are full of grace; but to call them "elegant" animals would be absurd.

Deepika is the epitome of classiness and hotness; she maintains that balance really well.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.

The greatest style is when you can't see the style though you walk away knowing it was there. It's like a perfume - there but not there.

I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly.

I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.

I'm telling you, it's fu**ing hard to be classy