Elegant Man Quotes

#1. Quayle himself was a surprisingly elegant man of sixty winters or more. (One might equally have said "sixty springs" or "sixty summers," but that would have been inaccurate, for Quayle was a man of bare trees and frozen water.)

John Connolly

#2. The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

Honore De Balzac

#3. Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they're always wrong.

Truman Capote

#4. Joanna wondered if so elegant a man could, in truth, be a pirate.
Still, she could not deny the air of mystery about him or the intense fire in his dark eyes.
'Twas as if Lucifer himself had paid them a visit.

Regan Walker

#5. Auriele stepped in front of Henry when he would have gone to her. Her lips peeled back. "Hijo de perra!" she said, her voice alive with anger.
Henry flushed, so the insult hit home. Calling someone a son of a dog is a good insult among werewolves.
"Hijo de Chihuahua," said Mary Jo.

Patricia Briggs

#6. He was the sort of languid and elegant young man one would expect to find at a country house party, playing croquet with Bertie Wooster. Frightfully good fun, but not too many brains.

Rhys Bowen

#7. The gesture of taking the watch from the pocket and looking at the time is very elegant for a man, but if I was going to create a pocket watch, I wanted it to be very modern. I didn't want to do old-fashioned.

Richard Mille

#8. A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. I begin to see my life as a small part of something grander, more elegant: the intertwined nature of the souls of man.

Raoul Wientzen

#10. Master Griffin, I would marry my own mother for the excuse to stab my eyes out with her brooches than to see anything under your kilt," the man's voice said with an elegant aplomb. "Where would you like your guest's things, sir?

Tiffany Reisz

#11. Notional is a production company with the DNA of an Internet company that makes content for everything.

Ricky Van Veen

#12. A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.

Vincent Piazza

#13. God's love is marvelous and mysterious, and no effort of man - no matter how elegant or purposeful - can explain that.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#14. He was a thin, elegant-looking man with precise symmetrical features and the hushed, disapproving manner of a senior librarian.

Alastair Reynolds

#15. I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that's not the kind of woman that I am.

Tamar Braxton

#16. We were vicious and violent but elegant and discreet. There was a dance to all of this, one that kept all things flowing in the right direction, a circle that ensured the smartest and brightest would stay on top, not the man with the most guns and the smallest dick.

Karina Halle

#17. Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.

Margaret Way

#18. Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only 'special' people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don't think He has a place for the rest of us. We are so wrong!

Chuck Smith

#19. It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

Vivienne Westwood

#20. Take warning of the consequences of being nobody's enemy but your own.

Charles Dickens

#21. The old man took out an extraordinarily beautiful and elegant handkerchief and gave it to her to dry her tears. It was the sort of handkerchief that one might be content to be judged by if it was all that remained of one after one's death.

Jesse Ball

#22. There are, for all of us, the things we tell everyone, the things we tell just a few people, the things we tell only loved ones (and perhaps therapists), and the things we tell only ourselves. And then, of course, there are the things we do not even admit to ourselves:

Jonathan Biss

#23. I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.

Andrea Bocelli

#24. Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature, and history - as befits a former law professor - and he has shown time and again a surprising interest in contemporary fiction.

Teju Cole

#25. [Thoreau] is a nimble skater who cuts elegant and complicated figures on a surface of frozen platitudes. Perhaps he would have been a better writer if he had not been quite so good a man.

W. Somerset Maugham

#26. If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.

Kirk Hammett

#27. Sure how that was going to work, but once I got Boris out of the house I could figure something out. "Please, come on." "Is State Care that bad in America?" said Boris doubtfully.

Donna Tartt

#28. My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man.

Michael Haneke

#29. 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.

Neil Gaiman