Top 100 Elegance Is Quotes
#1. Fashion anticipates ... elegance is a state of mind.
Oleg Cassini
#2. Thought can be lofty without being elegant, but to the extent it lacks elegance it will have less effect on others. Force without finesse is mere mass.
Fernando Pessoa
#3. Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#4. Conversation sprang up as to the elegance and realism of her acting -- the sort of conversation that is always repeated and is always the same. In the midst of the conversation Fedor Petrovich glanced at Ivan Ilych and became silent. The others also looked at him and grew silent. Ivan
Leo Tolstoy
#5. Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?
Edouard Manet
#7. In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
Joseph Joubert
#8. Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.
Mason Cooley
#10. What is a fine person or a beauteous face,
Unless deportment give them decent grace;
Blessed with all other requisites to please,
To want the striking elegance of ease;
Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill
Of moving gracefully, or standing still.
Winston Churchill
#11. Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#12. Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
#14. Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence.
Elie Saab
#15. That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people. - The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery
#16. Perfume puts the finishing touch to elegance - a detail that subtly underscores the look, an invisible extra that completes a man and a woman's personality. Without it there is something missing.
Gianni Versace
#17. There is an elegance to knowing who you are that will help you unfold a sweet tolerance for yourself. Knowing and liking yourself will then allow you to be kind and compassionate to others, deeply aware that they want the same things: love and contentment.
Margaux Bergen
#18. Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.
Alice Munro
#19. It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others.Usually one must enter into a friendship with a person who has accomplished that great feat himself.Then something might start to rub off on you of that true elegance.
Hafez
#20. Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.
Massimo Vignelli
#21. The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.
Samuel Johnson
#23. Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.
Edoardo Ponti
#24. The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
Diana Vreeland
#25. THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH IS THE FIRST BEAUTY. MILLIONS OF years before us the earth lived in wild elegance. Landscape is the first-born of creation. Sculpted with huge patience over millennia, landscape has enormous diversity of shape, presence and memory.
John O'Donohue
#26. It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.
Cesar Romero
#28. I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.
Meg Ryan
#30. So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.
Robert Haugen
#31. Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#32. The master of thinking is like a master of sword! He can easily win any fight with a high art and a great elegance!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#34. One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve the theory, is that ... a chief criterion for the selection of a correct hypothesis ... seems to be the criterion of beauty, simplicity, or elegance.
Murray Gell-Mann
#35. You have to look good when you are riding, you have to impress your adversary with your elegance. To look good is already to go fast.
Paul Fournel
#36. So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.
Muriel Barbery
#37. Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut feeling is that on the inside, she has the same simple refinement as the hedgehog: a deceptively indolent little creature, fiercely solitary
and terrible elegant.
Muriel Barbery
#41. The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.
George Polya
#43. You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
Agatha Christie
#44. Cate Blanchett is mesmerizing. I don't know why. It's beyond my understanding. Why we all want to work with her is she elevates the rest of us. She's just got some ethereal grace and elegance that's beyond me, and an acute understanding of human nature. She's just exquisite. She's otherworldly.
Brad Pitt
#45. Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
Edsger Dijkstra
#46. No. No way. That name is reserved for females with grace and elegance, not this girl. This girl is ... beastly.
Victoria Scott
#49. Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become.
Zac Posen
#50. I read once that elegance is a privilege of age. I thought, that's so true. You get more comfortable with yourself as you get older.
Victoria Beckham
#51. The Stockholm street style is distinctive, with ensembles that exemplify the city's understated elegance.
Aslaug Magnusdottir
#52. I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.
Donald Norman
#53. The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.
Karl Lagerfeld
#54. Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't.
William S. Burroughs
#55. The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect.
Mary McCarthy
#56. Maintainence is elegance. Diana Vreeland. vogue magazine 1984.
Diana Vreeland
#58. Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance.
Molly O'Neill
#59. I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
Nate Lowman
#60. As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: Elegance is not worth that price.
John Lewis Gaddis
#61. I am very seldom interested in applications. I am more interested in the elegance of a problem. Is it a good problem, an interesting problem?
Claude Shannon
#62. Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order, proportion, balance - is in Egypt.
Camille Paglia
#63. The thing with the new world," the tuba had said once, "is it's just horrifically short on elegance.
Emily St. John Mandel
#64. You must remember, Madame Harris, elegance is in the details.
Lynn Sheene
#66. Elegance and smartness is the sexiest thing woman can have, not just the flesh
Baris Gencel
#67. 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.
Kate Reardon
#68. Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn't have it naked, she'll never it clothed.
Karl Lagerfeld
#69. Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Benjamin Disraeli
#70. Art is life playing to other rhythms."
"The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery
#71. The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
Edsger Dijkstra
#73. The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
Alan Greenspan
#74. Old Enochian running on neural wetware is not the fastest procedural language ever invented, and it's semantics make AppleScript look like a thing of elegance and beauty
Charles Stross
#75. Fashion is an expression of the times. Elegance is something else again.
Horst P. Horst
#76. Maybe she will be broken forever. but if it is so, she will adorn it with radiant elegance; and all that man will ever discern is her effortless grace and the softness of her smile.
Terry A. O'Neal
#77. Elegance is not to be noticed, but to be remembered.
Giorgio Armani
#78. Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.
Paulo Coelho
#79. The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs
William James
#82. New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.
Tom Piazza
#83. Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.
Paulo Coelho
#85. Elegance is not catching somebody's eyes, it's staying in somebody's memory
Giorgio Armani
#86. There is no such thing as a natural fit between form and content. Seamless elegance would be tantamount to erasure.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#87. The apartment is an oasis - of civility, kindness, and elegance.
Will Schwalbe
#88. Elegance is achieved when, having discarded all superfluous things, we discover simplicity and concentration.
Paulo Coelho
#90. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed.
John Green
#91. You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you cross your legs, not the label or the newest clothes from the latest collection.
Carine Roitfeld
#92. It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.
Samuel Johnson
#93. Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there.
C. JoyBell C.
#94. For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.
Christian Lacroix
#95. Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show.
Christian Dior
#96. The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.
Andre Leon Talley
#97. You can acquire chic and elegance, but style itself is a rare thing.
Irene Sharaff
#98. I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.
Rita Hayworth
#99. While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.
Francis Crick
#100. If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.
Bruce Springsteen
