“Elegance is refusal.”

“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”

“Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.”

“A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.”

“Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!”

“Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.”

“There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman”