Don't ruin the moment by saying something stupid. There's elegance in things left unsaid.

Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.

“Barry's wife, Linda, had the table set with china, crystal and elegant silverware, but I saw it and told her that just wouldn't work. So I asked if they had any newspaper, and she just poured the crawfish all over that elegant table.”

“We hope to create a unique live/work/play environment that complements the elegance of the Somerset Collection.”

“In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.”

“She was following in the tradition of the first lady displaying this kind of elegance as a statement about the power of the presidency.”

“Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.”

“It's wonderful, elegant taste. It's a beautiful collection of American, 19th-century and Impressionist art.”

“a very elegant display of about 20 wall portraits on easels featuring children throughout the world.”

I sometimes get the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture.