Top 100 Elegance Is Quotes
#1. Fashion anticipates ... elegance is a state of mind.
Oleg Cassini
#2. Do you know what elegance is? It is not only what you're wearing. It is how you wear it. who you are inside.
Carolina Herrera
#3. Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.
Carole Bouquet
#4. If indeed "elegance is frigid," it can as well be described as filthy. There is no denying, at any rate, that among the elements of the elegance in which we take such delight is a measure of the unclean, the unsanitary.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#5. Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
Diana Vreeland
#6. On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.
Feist
#7. Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence.
Elie Saab
#8. Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.
William Hazlitt
#9. Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.
Coco Chanel
#10. Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.
Paulo Coelho
#12. Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.
Massimo Vignelli
#14. Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.
Edoardo Ponti
#15. Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring.
Carmel Snow
#16. The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
Diana Vreeland
#20. It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.
Cesar Romero
#23. Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.
Paulo Coelho
#25. Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.
William Hazlitt
#26. Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Coco Chanel
#28. Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.
Oleg Cassini
#29. Elegance is like manners. You can't be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it's another matter.
Aldo Gucci
#30. Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become.
Zac Posen
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory
Coco Chanel
#36. I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
Nate Lowman
#37. As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: Elegance is not worth that price.
John Lewis Gaddis
#38. 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
#39. You must remember, Madame Harris, elegance is in the details.
Lynn Sheene
#40. Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.
Donatella Versace
#42. Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#43. Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn't have it naked, she'll never it clothed.
Karl Lagerfeld
#44. Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra
#46. Fashion is an expression of the times. Elegance is something else again.
Horst P. Horst
#48. Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent nature - a mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it.
Ashim Shanker
#49. Elegance is not to be noticed, but to be remembered.
Giorgio Armani
#50. 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
#52. Elegance is not about being noticed, it's about being remembered.
Habeeb Akande
#53. The human being delivered to himself, without any partiality for elegance, is a monster.
Emil M. Cioran
#55. 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
#56. Elegance is not catching somebody's eyes, it's staying in somebody's memory
Giorgio Armani
#57. Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered.
Giorgio Armani
#58. The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.
Frederick Sommer
#59. Elegance is achieved when, having discarded all superfluous things, we discover simplicity and concentration.
Paulo Coelho
#60. 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
#61. I love unique things that not everyone has. I believe its all about how you wear an outfit, not how much it costs or where it's from. Elegance is the key.
Sasha Jackson
#62. 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.
#63. For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.
Christian Lacroix
#64. Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show.
Christian Dior
#65. Elegance is necessarily unnatural, only achieveable at great expense. If you just do something, it won't be elegant, but if you do it and then see what might be more elegant, and do it again, you might, after an unknown number of iterations, get something that is very elegant.
Erik Naggum
#68. My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.
Fernando J. Corbato
#69. His account books reflect a concern with fashion, as shown by periodic visits to a French tailor, and his sartorial elegance is confirmed in portraits. In one painting, he wears a double-breasted coat with brass buttons and gilt-edged lapels, his neck swathed delicately in a ruffled lace jabot.
Ron Chernow
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?
Edouard Manet
#75. In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
Joseph Joubert
#76. Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.
Mason Cooley
#78. 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
#79. 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.
#80. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.
Alice Munro
#86. 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
#87. The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.
Samuel Johnson
#88. 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
#89. 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
#91. So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.
Robert Haugen
#92. Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#100. 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
