The word "elegance" is a bit different now.
I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.
New York is still the most glamorous city I've ever been to, but it's starting to feel older. The sirens still wail; the paths in Central Park still pulsate with joggers. The Manhattan schist still trembles beneath your feet. But weirdly, it's starting to feel, dare I say it, a bit quaint.
The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general.
Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.
I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity.
Being attractive lasts longer than being pretty.
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control.
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
I feel that beauty and femininity are ageless
Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.
And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.
More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.
My place in New York is very authentic, very old New York. I love old New York.
I have a soft spot for vintage movie houses covered in goo; what can I say?
Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime.
It's hard to think of another body of work that is more universally beloved - I don't think I've ever met someone who has encountered 'Calvin and Hobbes' without falling for them.
Bruges is a beautiful medieval city almost untouched by time. If you like jazz, you will be well catered for. If you like chocolate and beer, you will be in heaven.
I like classy women: Virna Lisi, Catherine Deneuve.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Audrey Hepburn is someone I've always admired. She has that untouchable star quality.
