Elegance Quotes · Page 12

I think you are born chic. You cannot be chic. It is something you cannot learn.

— Carine Roitfeld

Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.

— Robert Schumann

“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

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

— Sid Waddell

My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you're beauty and elegance.

— Rod Stewart

I have some favorites. I love Chaplin; I mean I really love Chaplin. I just think there's a grace and an elegance…

— Gary Ross

Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.

— Paulo Coelho

“Tiffany’s blue box is a slogan without words. It stands for elegance and packaging and quality and “price is no object.”

— Seth Godin

“You're elegance in a misunderstood form. Crystal quartz in a world of platinum. Oh, my dizzy boy, there's a fire in you…

— Taylor Rhodes

“Built in an elegant fusion of Italianate, French, and early Disney styles, this magnificent estate offers a thousand bathrooms for all of…

— Ilona Andrews

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine…

— William Hazlitt

“No woman has ever lacked elegance because of an excess of simplicity but always because of an accumulation of elaborate details or…

— Geneviève Antoine Dariaux

MY INSPIRATION FOR THIS LIMITED EDITION DESIGN WAS BASED ON THE LEGACY OF HENNESSY AS A BRAND. TO ME, HENNESSY HAS ALWAYS…

— Shepard Fairey

Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut…

— Muriel Barbery

I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film…

— Patti Smith

All the great artists of the world slowly slowly start growing a quality of feminineness, grace, elegance, exquisiteness. A certain flavor of…

— Rajneesh

Grooming is the secret of real elegance. The best clothes, the most wonderful jewels, the most glamorous beauty don't count without good…

— Christian Dior

I remember touring the Medici palace in Florence when I was younger and I was entranced by the beauty and elegance of…

— Drew Scott

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

— Fernando J. Corbato

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

— Bell Hooks

I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my…

— H. R. Giger

The elegance of the Italian South is a very strong elegance and it is one that I bring. It is a sexy…

— Riccardo Tisci

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Samuel Johnson

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

— Diana Vreeland

Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness.

— Paola Antonelli

Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness. You are not fearful of dark…

— Chogyam Trungpa

To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.

— Don Altman

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

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.

— Nate Lowman

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

— John Dewey

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance…

— Helena Christensen

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

— Abba Eban

You have to look good when you are riding, you have to impress your adversary with your elegance. To look good is…

— Paul Fournel

“Every species embodies a solution to some environmental challenge, and some of these solutions are breathtaking in their elegance.”

— Linda Bender

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

— Donatella Versace

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

— Terence McKenna

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy…

— Christian Louboutin

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

— Jane Austen

“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