Alexander Herzen Quotes

When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.

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

I have so many ways I can explain the ballroom scene. But the essence of the ballroom scene would be elegance, extravagance, and fabulousness to its 100 per cent. It's a place where you can be whoever you want to be inside of already being who you are.

I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.

Gansey leaned back, head thrown to the side, drunken and silly with happiness. "I love this car," he said, loud enough to be heard over the engine. "I should buy four more of them. I'll just open the door of one to fall in to the other. One can be a living room, one can be my kitchen, I'll sleep in one..." "And the fourth? Butler's pantry?" Blue shouted. "Don't be so selfish. Guest room.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now.

I've got Ferraris coming out me bum.

I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.

Italians have no sense of the dramatic.

I like being absurd. Being silly.

I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.

Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

When I was in elementary school, I watched 'Cinema Paradiso' 22 times and memorized the dialogue. In the movie, everyone had a place, even the bum who thought he owned the piazza. Eccentricities were celebrated, and no one was isolated.

I don't have a glamorous lifestyle.

If you go to my house, it's not like I'm 5, but I definitely have a lot of toys and weird, tiny miniatures.

Gak encompasses so many things, like, 'Tonight is going to be a gak and a half.' If it's going to be a 'big gak,' it's going to be major.

My Mickey Mouse ears were given to me by a dear friend. They remind me of how I need to be silly.

I feel like I'm back visiting an old grandmother. She's crotchety and eccentric, but also elegant, and anyone who doesn't fall in love with her has no imagination.

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.

The ridiculousness and idiocy of life is embraced and examined. It nurtures the childhood perspective in everyone.

I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.