Discreet Charm Quotes

I think that a woman that is elegant herself is somebody who can dress herself easily and effortlessly.

I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery.

It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

Elegance is not about being noticed, its about being remembered.

Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full of the beauty of life.

I don't go for the flash and panache.

Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fashionable who knows how to twirl her ladylike locks just so and walk adroitly on kitten heels, who is all gesture and whisper - but I am unfortunately forward and forthright: When I am interested in a man, he absolutely knows it.

It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.