Elegance Quotes

Elegance is always in style for men.

— Donatella Versace

Modesty is the highest elegance

— Coco Chanel

“Soap is the cornerstone of elegance.”

— Genevieve Antoine Dariaux

“Intelligence + Elegance = Excellence.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Elegance and beauty have been banished.

— Yves Saint Laurent

“Elegance is a personality.”

— Petek Kabakci

Style should breathe elegance.

— Tridha Choudhury

I have a simple taste, only the best.

— Oscar Wilde

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

— Jon Franklin

Exactness of intention produces elegance of style.

— Nathan Milstein

Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity.

— Gordon Willis

The Fosse technique really does have to have a delicacy and an elegance to it.

— Ann Reinking

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.

— Anonymous

Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.

— Yves Saint Laurent

French elegance lies in the balance of romance and restraint.

— Sarah Turnbull

Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.

— Paulo Coelho

“Now nothing holds significance, and nothing holds relevance. ‘Cause the only thing I can see is her elegance.”

— Mike Skinner

What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?

— Henri Poincare

You soon learn there’s no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly…

— Mark Lawrence

I am very seldom interested in applications. I am more interested in the elegance of a problem. Is it a good problem,…

— Claude Shannon

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

— Emily Post

A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but noone poet can write verses with such…

— David Hume

It should be judged primarily on grace, elegance and beauty rather than simply on mechanic tumbling.

— Svetlana Khorkina

Chanel all the way! Just because not only do they have timeless pieces, but since it is the epitome of class and…

— Zendaya

I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence…

— John Green

At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the people who do…

— Margaret Geller

I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape,…

— Charlotte Bronte

Dior has held an iconic place in my imagination. I am so honored to be joining a house that is the gold…

— Monica Barbaro

Suppose we took a thousand negatives... combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the…

— Berenice Abbott

Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance…

— Charles Gounod

When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. It was all the same.…

— Libba Bray

In general I don't like definitions, but 'Minimalist' is a term that means elegance and openness, so I would prefer to be…

— Ludovico Einaudi

In order to create an image almost similar to that of a pencil case standing up and walking, I try to eliminate…

— Yohji Yamamoto

In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and…

— Bryan Ward-Perkins

Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion,…

— Marvin L. Cohen

I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much…

— Terry Teachout

Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by…

— Deborah Eisenberg

What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

What I bring - my team and I, because it's not only me - is this sense of elegance and casualness, and…

— Daniel Boulud

Once in a rare while, you get to read a story of such breathtaking beauty and intelligence that you remember why you…

— Robin Oliveira