A Quote by Sarah Turnbull
French elegance lies in the balance of romance and restraint.
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The elegance of the Italian South is a very strong elegance and it is one that I bring. It is a sexy elegance - or at least, let's say less chaste.
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What I love about French gardens is the combination of formal elegance and intellectual questioning.
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Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.
It's stupid to say that there's any comfort to be had in 'knowing your place,' but there is a sense of reassuring escapism to something like 'Downton Abbey.' There's a perceived romance and elegance that is wonderful to lose yourself in.
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
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