It is … the task of criticism to establish principles; to improve opinion into knowledge; and to distinguish those means of pleasing which depend upon known causes and rational deduction, from the nameless and inexplicable elegances which appeal wholly to the fancy, from which we feel delight, but know not how they produce it, and which may well be termed the enchantress of the soul. ❋ Unknown (2008)
As all cat lovers know well, Felis domestica is a marvel of balance, subtlety and other hidden elegances. ❋ Marc Kaufman (2010)
The grandfather, haughty, with head held high, amalgamating more than ever in his toilet and his manners all the elegances of the epoch of ❋ Unknown (2008)
I admit that Asia is a farce; but I do not precisely see what you find to laugh at in the Grand Lama, you peoples of the west, who have mingled with your fashions and your elegances all the complicated filth of majesty, from the dirty chemise of ❋ Unknown (2008)
What they created was a kind of policy sandwich, with some of Price's elegances wrapped around Darman and Zoellick's programmatic agenda. ❋ Unknown (2008)
All the graces, Veneres, pleasures, elegances attend him, [2216] golden fortune accompanies and lodgeth with him; and as to those ❋ Unknown (2007)
No danger shall affright, for if that be true the poets feign, Love is the son of Mars and Venus; as he hath delights, pleasures, elegances from his mother, so hath he hardness, valour, and boldness from his father. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Saxons were still greedy eaters and great drinkers, and their feasts were often of a noisy and drunken kind; but many new comforts and even elegances had become known, and were fast increasing. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I was surprised, for I had not associated a _drawing-room_ with emigrant life in Canada; but I followed her along a pretty entrance-lobby, floored with polished oak, into a lofty room, furnished with all the elegances and luxuries of the mansion of an affluent Englishman at home, a beautiful piano not being wanting. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Only much later do you figure out that this is one of the subtle elegances of the Java language. ❋ Neal Ford (2006)
Good sense and good-nature suggest civility in general; but, in good-breeding there are a thousand little delicacies, which are established only by custom; and it is these little elegances of manners which distinguish a courtier and a man of fashion from the vulgar. ❋ Unknown (2005)
If the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel, so are the elegances of a vulgar man; and his made me wince. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Morlaine, between two young women whom she was training in the elegances of the mind; Madame Meillan, resting assured on thirty years of sovereign beauty; Madame Berthier d'Eyzelles, erect under iron-gray hair sparkling with diamonds. ❋ Various (N/A)
Yet in this solitary nook the elegances and the tastes of the most cultivated society are to be found. ❋ Various (N/A)
[136] They satisfy hunger without seeking the elegances and delicacies of the table. ❋ Caius Cornelius Tacitus (N/A)
In fact, the very abundance of conveniences and comforts and elegances often seems to have an injurious and deteriorating effect on individuals and families by producing in them a selfish love of personal ease and exclusiveness. ❋ Helen Ekin Starrett (N/A)
They eyed his elegances with suspicion -- his fur coat, his gloves, his hat -- the man whose limousine stood in front of the door was not one of them; they might beg of him, but they would never call him "Brother." ❋ Temple Bailey (N/A)
