Elegance is refusal.
True generosity means accepting ingratitude.
True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease.
Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!
"Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed."
A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.