Top 100 Quotes About Elegance
#1. Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle - these have been fully attained, and with them a delight in quiet communion with Nature, expressing as she does the sense of beauty in orderliness.
Marie-Luise Gothein
#2. 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
#3. Because this age and the next age
Engender in the ditch,
No man can know a happy man
From any passing wretch,
If Folly link with Elegance
No man knows which is which ...
William Butler Yeats
#4. Because he doesn't know he carries within him a supreme elegance, I say it for him.
Marguerite Duras
#7. It is said that science demystifies nature, but scientists on the frontier are awed by the elegance and harmony of nature.
Daniel C. Matt
#8. It's unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who's wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you're looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
#9. Fashion is an expression of the times. Elegance is something else again.
Horst P. Horst
#10. 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
#11. Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out.
Coco Chanel
#13. I adore the elegance of botanical realism but I also can't help but dream of my very own neo-surrealistic fantasy flowers, and so I paint and illustrate both; I always find myself between both of those worlds.
Minnelli Lucy France
#15. Fashion design is so diverse. It does not have clear identities as before with Balenciaga, Chanel, Cardin, Courreges. Design is about being recognised without a label. Elegance alone is not sufficient,
Pierre Cardin
#16. It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame.
Joan Fontaine
#17. The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
Alan Greenspan
#19. Elegance does not catch the eye. It stays in memory.
Giorgio Armani
#20. Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.
Robert Schumann
#21. It is spring time now! While the world looks for a new war to fight, you look for a cherry blossom to watch! Let the stupid seeks the violence; you seek the elegance!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#22. 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
#23. You soon learn there's no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and how good it tastes.
Mark Lawrence
#24. Art is life playing to other rhythms."
"The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery
#25. Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.
Henry Petroski
#26. The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the 'Times' obit writer who redesigned its traditional form and added a measure of stylistic elegance.
Billy Collins
#27. I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance.
Thomas Haden Church
#28. Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Benjamin Disraeli
#29. THE 1973 NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS were held in a flyblown banquet room way up near the Columbia School of Journalism - an area not known for its elegance. Then again, neither were journalists.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#30. There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there's also an Italian actor I admire a great deal: Alberto Sordi.
Alfred Molina
#31. I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.
David Suzuki
#33. I don't think you should make so many off-colour jokes about him becoming a cuckold. You're only getting away with it because he doesn't know what it means.' 'That's the beauty of the English language. One can wrap insults inside elegance, like popping anchovies into pastry.
Christopher Fowler
#34. Therein lies the magic of our paradoxes: the situation was so uncomfortable that he pulled through with elegance.
David Foenkinos
#35. The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent.
Edward Norton
#36. All the great artists of the world slowly slowly start growing a quality of feminineness, grace, elegance, exquisiteness. A certain flavor of softness, relaxedness, calmness and quietness surrounds them. They are no longer feverish. What I am teaching here is really to turn the whole world feminine.
Rajneesh
#37. To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
Jean Genet
#38. I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.
James Joyce
#39. True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.
Emile M. Cioran
#40. Every age probably regards itself as unique in its sexual sophistication, and if we take Ovid as a typical spokesman we should have to conclude that the keynote of his age was elegance ... Ovid could not possibly have taken himself, nor be taken for, an Ancient.
Rolfe Humphries
#41. Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!
Coco Chanel
#42. About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.
Sidney Altman
#43. Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra
#44. My background may be common, but I have specialized in elegance.
Cyril Ritchard
#45. Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
F. Sionil Jose
#46. Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn't have it naked, she'll never it clothed.
Karl Lagerfeld
#47. I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
H.R. Giger
#48. But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?
Carl Sagan
#49. Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#50. 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
#51. I have found my star. She is beauty and grace. Elegance and goodness. My laughter in winter. She is courageous and strong. Bold and tempting. Unlike any other in all the universe, and I cannot touch her. I dare not even try. [Zarek]
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#52. Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
Claes Oldenburg
#53. Elegance and smartness is the sexiest thing woman can have, not just the flesh
Baris Gencel
#55. How much blood was being made to flow for that last show of elegance?
C.S. Friedman
#56. 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
#57. Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.
Oleg Cassini
#58. I couldn't define my style; that's impossible. I like comfort and elegance with a bit of glamour thrown in. If I like something, I'll wear it for years.
Jemima Khan
#59. The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
Mary Browne
#60. Maintainence is elegance. Diana Vreeland. vogue magazine 1984.
Diana Vreeland
#61. Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.
Paulo Coelho
#63. In her wake came Don Calogero, a rat escorting a rose: though his clothes had no elegance this time they were at least decent.
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
#64. Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance.
Molly O'Neill
#65. One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid ... One wants ... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?
Tony Kushner
#66. Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.
Christian Dior
#67. It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
Jean Cocteau
#69. I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
Nate Lowman
#70. As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: Elegance is not worth that price.
John Lewis Gaddis
#71. Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness. You are not fearful of dark corners ...
Chogyam Trungpa
#72. In real-world Finance, they don't pay for elegance. They pay for power - predictive power.
Robert Haugen
#73. I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere.
Jane Austen
#74. By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.
Abdelkader El Djezairi
#75. She did not really like her. She would not be in a hurry to find fault, but she suspected that there was no elegance, ease, but not elegance ... Her person was rather good; her face not unpretty; but neither feature nor air, nor voice, nor manner were elegant.
Jane Austen
#76. One Hyde Park squatted next to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel like a stack of office furniture, and with all the elegance and charm of the inside of a photocopier. Albeit a brand new photocopier that doubled as a fax and document scanner.
Ben Aaronovitch
#77. Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.
Benno C. Schmidt Jr.
#79. 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
#80. Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth; they are not playing with the inner character.
Christian Louboutin
#81. Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.
Lord Chesterfield
#82. In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
Bill Watterson
#83. He thought about explaining math's beauty to her, the elegance of an equation, the simplicity within the complexity. The thrill of touching truth and knowing it as ancient and unassailable, as permanent and profound.
Katie Kennedy
#84. A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance ... Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible.
Pierre L. Van Den Berghe
#85. True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease.
Coco Chanel
#86. I was in love with the innocence of dogs, the purity of their affection. They didn't know enough to hide their feelings. They existed. A dog was a dog. There was such a simple elegance about being a dog that I envied.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#87. I remember the night when I was playing at Birdland, and Duke Ellington walked in wearing that cap of his and with all his elegance. The Duke then came backstage, and I was there with my band. That's the one thing I miss.
Maynard Ferguson
#88. Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.
W. Somerset Maugham
#89. The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.
Sylvia Kristel
#90. Her elegance was in the abstract; in her gait, in her posture, even in how she breathed.
Heru Ptah
#91. There's this British elegance that we, at times, have really missed in the States. We've always been more of a sportswear culture.
Paul Weller
#92. I like to think that I can introduce people to the idea of simplicity and elegance.
Giorgio Armani
#93. 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
#94. I sit in some long grass, watch for a while to see if I can find some ants working. The thing about watching ants is, you see some order and elegance to the whole works. And also is it a time of you wondering who is higher, really. But
Elizabeth Berg
#95. You must remember, Madame Harris, elegance is in the details.
Lynn Sheene
#96. When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.
Michio Kaku
#97. But elegance attracted me. I liked the way it hid pain. One
Zadie Smith
#98. If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!
Johnny Ball
#100. Sadly, I swallowed my tea and stared at the crowd of second-rate elegance ...
Hermann Hesse
