Elegance Quotes

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.

I've tried to find a new elegance. It's not easy because people want to be shocked. They want explosive fashion. But explosions don't last, they disappear immediately and leave nothing but ashes.

Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.

Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.

Steve Beaton - The adonis of darts, what poise, what elegance - a true roman gladiator with plenty of hair wax.

So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.

Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.

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.

I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesnt date.

In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.

I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.

I think elegance is always going to be there.

The word "elegance" is a bit different now.

Casual elegance is all about the mix.

Elegance is always in style for men.

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.

My fancy dress costume of choice is... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for ultimate dressing-up indulgence.

A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact".

My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.

My aesthetic is about simplicity, elegance, and comfort, whether that is interpreted in a man's suit or a track suit.

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.

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.

Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.

The noble entitlement bespeaks an élan, a certain type of relationship with your partner. It means formidable technique not displayed lightly. The excitement comes from elegance.

You go in and record and sing them some and you go back in and rerecord and sing them some more. That's kind of how I did this album [The Art of Elegance].

I had to cut a lot of things I wanted to keep [in The Art of Elegance]. I'm going to have to do a part two for sure.

Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.

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.

I think there's a kind of elegance to it, to work within that framework where what you don't see is often more enticing.

Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance.

I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film [Dream of Life]; it gives the film a certain elegance.

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.

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance...Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible.

The elegance of the Italian South is a very strong elegance and it is one that I bring. It is a sexy elegance - or at least, let's say less chaste.

I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.

So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.

He endearing elegance of female friendship.

Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.

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.

New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.

Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.

I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

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.

The elegance of the moon teaches us to be elegant and kind.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.