Ella Purnell Quotes

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

You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.

My mother is old-fashioned; she raised us like girls from a 19th-century book. My sisters and I are known for being the most polite girls in France. My mother wanted us to be like royalty: never ever will you be caught being rude, or superficial or being a star or whatever.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

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.

No one teaches you how to be graceful.

I learned how to deal with people with elegance from Patrick Swayze.

Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.

I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.

My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

There is something to grace and deportment, but you determine that for yourself. That's something you own.

Poise is a word that seems to have slipped out of the lexicon. There's no emoji for it.

I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.

Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.

In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But 19th century nobility and the enlightened thinkers and stoics before them viewed manners in a very different way. To them, manners are an outward expression of an inward struggle.

It's ok to be sassy, but I'll never be trashy, it's ok to be nasty, but you got to keep it classy now

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.