Top 62 Your Elegance Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact".
Erik Naggum
#4. Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.
Karl Lagerfeld
#5. Steve Beaton - The adonis of darts, what poise, what elegance - a true roman gladiator with plenty of hair wax.
Sid Waddell
#6. 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.
#7. 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
#8. Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
Diana Vreeland
#9. 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
#10. I learned how to deal with people with elegance from Patrick Swayze.
Travis Fimmel
#12. Elegance and comfort are not incompatible, and whoever maintains the contrary simply doesn't know what he's talking about
Salvatore Ferragamo
#14. Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.
Philippe Starck
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Dante, this
is Annabelle."
No. No way. That name is
reserved for females with grace
and elegance, not this girl. This girl
is ... beastly. "Annabelle," I say.
"It suits you.
Victoria Scott
#18. 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
#19. I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There's an elegance, just like in a bullfight.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. God, I love the waltz, the way the elegance of the one-count draws your attention away from the restlessness of the two-three.
Elizabeth Little
#23. Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.
Angela Merkel
#24. 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
#25. ( ... ) An amalgam of sexual excess and demonic elegance, as likely to fuck you as tear out your heart.
Clive Barker
#26. Vasily chortled. "What a diplomat you've become! You've a most refreshing way about you. Given time, I have no doubt that, despite your humble antecedents, you will learn to conduct yourself with the restraint and elegance of a noblewoman."
"You mean I'll learn to shut up?
Leigh Bardugo
#28. 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
#29. Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.
William P. Alford
#30. 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
#31. For we have come by different ways to this place ... I can tell by the natural ease with which you wear fine clothes and the way your mouth moves when you speak with waiters in good restaurants. You have come the way of castles and cathedrals, of elegance and empire.
Robert James Waller
#32. I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.
Joyce Stranger
#33. 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
#34. Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age.
Anne Gracie
#35. Fashion anticipates ... elegance is a state of mind.
Oleg Cassini
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#41. Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
Petrarch
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
Henri Poincare
#47. I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
Natalie Dormer
#48. Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.
Mason Cooley
#49. 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
#50. Elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid ...
Zoe Heller
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?
Edouard Manet
#56. In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
Joseph Joubert
#57. 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
#58. To enjoy life at its best, be an epitome of style and elegance.
Debasish Mridha
#59. Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.
Carole Bouquet
#60. There has always been an elegance to the application of excellence.
Richard Diaz
#61. 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
#62. 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
