Understated Charm Quotes

Elegance doesn’t mean being noticed, it means being remembered

...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.

Elegance is not to be noticed, but to be remembered.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and all that because of a certain kind of ambition. But I was always trying to create something simple.

You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to.

I think there's a kind of elegance to it, to work within that framework where what you don't see is often more enticing.

Hugh Grant does a great job with his style. Somehow understated yet timeless and seems to get it. He does it on and off camera.

She was--I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is--one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them, become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.

I don't think you necessarily need to show off your stomach and boobs to be sexy. I'm just not attracted to that type of dressing.

There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.

She is elegant rather than belle.

I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession.

I'm actually a massive dork; people just don't know that.

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

I think elegance is always going to be there.