Elegance Quotes

The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.

Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.

It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother

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.

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.

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.

A man who relentlessly perspires to be excellent evidently inspires many with his intelligence and elegance.

A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope.

The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent.

I have some favorites. I love Chaplin; I mean I really love Chaplin. I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct.

The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect.

I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.

There's this British elegance that we, at times, have really missed in the States. We've always been more of a sportswear culture.

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.

Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance

I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.

Men expect too much, do too little, Put the contraption before the accomplishment, Lack skill of the interior mind To fashion dignity with shapes of air. Luxury, yes but not elegance!

My background may be common, but I have specialized in elegance.

Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.

Our girls have need of such an example of graciousness, elegance, refinement, and spirituality.

Elegance thrives on exclusion.

Physical elegance 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.

In real-world Finance, they don't pay for elegance. They pay for power - predictive power.

I want men to be more chic - and Japanese style has that kind of sophisticated elegance.

French elegance lies in the balance of romance and restraint.

Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?

Elegance is exquisite polish.

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.

Elegance and beauty have been banished.

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.

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.

[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.

Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.