Top 100 Quotes About Elegance
#1. Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age.
Anne Gracie
#2. Fashion anticipates ... elegance is a state of mind.
Oleg Cassini
#3. Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the new generations have all to learn. There may possibly be books without a polished language, but there can be no polished language without books.
Samuel Johnson
#4. Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.
Wynton Marsalis
#5. 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
#6. 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
#8. Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
Petrarch
#9. Beauty brings warmth, elegance and grandeur. Something in our souls longs deeply for that graciousness and delight. When we advert to the presence of beauty, the direction, rhythm and energy of our lives become different. The
John O'Donohue
#10. There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.
Helena Christensen
#11. When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.
Walter Savage Landor
#12. When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. It was all the same. She liked the beautiful logic of the circulatory system, the elegance of the neurological, and the fierce warrior spirit of the heart. The body had rules and it had quirks.
Libba Bray
#13. What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
Henri Poincare
#14. I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
Natalie Dormer
#15. 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
#16. When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.
Horace
#17. I love it when you can bring really great design and simple capability to something that doesn't cost much," he said as he pointed out the clean elegance of the houses. "It was the original vision for Apple. That's what we tried to do with the first Mac. That's what we did with the iPod.
Walter Isaacson
#18. Elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid ...
Zoe Heller
#19. Grooming is the secret of real elegance. The best clothes, the most wonderful jewels, the most glamorous beauty don't count without good grooming.
Christian Dior
#20. Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it.
Isabella Rossellini
#21. 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
#22. Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?
Edouard Manet
#24. In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
Joseph Joubert
#25. Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?
Charles Gounod
#26. Once i asked myself ," what is time? " , in a second or two , i find the answer - " 't' for tension , 'i' for imaginative character of time , 'm' as it is mathematically expressed , 'e' as it has elegance
Suman Kundu
#27. To enjoy life at its best, be an epitome of style and elegance.
Debasish Mridha
#28. Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.
Carole Bouquet
#29. There has always been an elegance to the application of excellence.
Richard Diaz
#30. I think my most favorite subject was Lena Horne because she embodies soul and grace and elegance and street. She embodies everything and beauty, great beauty, so she was a favorite subject.
Carol Friedman
#31. 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
#32. Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.
Mason Cooley
#33. Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.
Karl Lagerfeld
#34. Jasmine, the name of which signifies fragrance, is the emblem of delicacy and elegance. It is reared with difficulty in New England, but at the South, puts forth all its graces.
Dorothea Dix
#35. The river is such a tranquil place, a place to sit and think of romance and the beauty of nature, to enjoy the elegance of swans and the chance of a glimpse of a kingfisher.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#36. Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.
Philippe Starck
#38. Elegance and comfort are not incompatible, and whoever maintains the contrary simply doesn't know what he's talking about
Salvatore Ferragamo
#40. I learned how to deal with people with elegance from Patrick Swayze.
Travis Fimmel
#41. 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
#42. Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
Diana Vreeland
#43. Look for me in the crest of a wave, in the shape of a cloud, or in the elegance of an equation. Science is some of my best work. Seek knowledge and you shall find me.
Karen Azinger
#44. 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.
#45. Steve Beaton - The adonis of darts, what poise, what elegance - a true roman gladiator with plenty of hair wax.
Sid Waddell
#46. A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact".
Erik Naggum
#47. Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive, is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.
William Cowper
#48. I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There's an elegance, just like in a bullfight.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#49. From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which it included.
Heinrich Hertz
#50. Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.
Aristotle.
#51. Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity.
Gordon Willis
#52. The fledgling has a bleached white breast, a regal demeanor, and an otherworldly elegance, as if she dropped straight from some pure celestial realm into my lap. If
Terry Masear
#53. If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
Marcel Proust
#54. The tailoring may be a softer, more draped, but I don't believe it's any less smart. For sure it feels more relaxed, it's a different kind of elegance, but I'd never call it casual.
Patrick Grant
#55. Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus ... We must demand, at least, intention.
Paola Antonelli
#56. 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
#58. As we shall see, the tractable apostrophe has always done its proper jobs in our language with enthusiasm and elegance, but it has never been taken seriously enough; its talent for adaptability has been cruelly taken for granted; and now, in an age of supreme graphic frivolity, we pay the price.
Lynne Truss
#59. Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.
Edmund Burke
#60. 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
#61. I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me ...
Charlotte Bronte
#62. It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.
Ruth Rendell
#63. Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance
Samuel Johnson
#64. Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme ... they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.
Philip Levine
#65. Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence.
Elie Saab
#66. The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.
Emily Post
#67. Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come ... like a train ... but with ... elegance.
Patrick Marber
#68. My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.
William Bartram
#69. [On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.
Dorothy Parker
#70. All of the grace with which he moved and lived, all of his elegance and composure would fall away like the thinnest, gossamer-like film, to reveal the manic beast within.
Lynn Kelling
#71. Chanel all the way! Just because not only do they have timeless pieces, but since it is the epitome of class and elegance.
Zendaya
#72. 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
#73. The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
Clifford Geertz
#74. To get lost in the ecstasy and elegance of life, let me dive in the depth of love.
Debasish Mridha
#75. Her leg, sculptured by the tight sheen of the stocking, its long line running straight, over an arched instep, to the tip of a foot in a high-heeled pump, had a feminine elegance that seemed out of place in the dusty train car ...
Ayn Rand
#76. If you want to get an idea of a friend's temperament, ethics, and personal elegance, you need to look at him under the tests of severe circumstances, not under the regular rosy glow of daily life.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#77. 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
#79. I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down.
Julie Burchill
#80. 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
#82. 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
#83. Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.
Alice Munro
#84. One must be prepared to fight for one's simple pleasures and to defend them against elegance and erudition and all manner of glamorous enticements.
Amor Towles
#85. 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
#86. Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.
Coco Chanel
#87. Simplicity," I said, "is true elegance. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed. Her clothing should be seen only after she herself is.
C.W. Gortner
#88. Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with any art, this selection is guided by taste, elegance, and metaphor; it is a matter of induction, rather than deduction. High science depends on this art.
John Henry Holland
#89. Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.
Paulo Coelho
#91. Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
#92. Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.
Massimo Vignelli
#93. The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.
Samuel Johnson
#96. It seems strange to me that mechanical progress always seems to leave the slower demands of elegance far behind.
William Pene Du Bois
#97. Everywhere, I'm looking to reach elegance and intelligence.
Philippe Starck
#98. I'm quite into the French way - simple elegance with just a suggestion of sexiness, nothing vulgar.
Michelle Dockery
#99. There is no elegance in this existence, nor grace in our lives. There is nothing poetic about feasting on blood that spills from torn flesh...
Narayan Liu
#100. Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.
Edoardo Ponti
