Elegant Quotes · Page 3

“You are the best of our people, but you are not yet good enough.”

— Roxane Gay

“True sensuality is classy, not trashy.”

— Lebo Grand

“...but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.”

— Louisa May Alcott

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

— Renee Fleming

There’s nothing better than an elegant cry of despair.

— William Goyen

I have never been graceful, never been elegant.

— Rachel Riley

Halle Berry's style is simple and elegant.

— Denise Lewis

The real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.

— Christian Dior

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

— William Shenstone

New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes…

— Barbara Walters

I think that a woman that is elegant herself is somebody who can dress herself easily and effortlessly.

— Alice Temperley

Rockin' in the club, catch me on an elephant. Young Kreayshawn grimey, but I feel so elegant.

— Kreayshawn

The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.

— Jeff Greenfield

In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.

— Douglas Crockford

As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.

— Maureen O'Hara

People ask me how can I be stylish, how can I be elegant and what can I wear? My only answer is…

— Miuccia Prada

Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts,…

— Peter Cundill

Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up…

— Eva Brann

I thought Hillary Clinton was remarkably elegant and intelligent and focusing on the issues even though her opponent was trying to bring…

— Natalie Portman

John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the country: a handsome, witty…

— Kitty Kelley

Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, "How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?" It is a dazzling and…

— Bill Ayers

Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a…

— Wyclef Jean

I love and admire the American culture and the American dream. I learnt so many things about the American shoe industry and…

— Diego Della Valle

To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of…

— Alexander Herzen

I think British men build up the idea of us French girls having some magic extra sex appeal so much, they lose…

— Eva Green

Engineers love to optimize problems. Now I optimize logistical problems. I ask: 'What's the goal? What are our constraints? What is the…

— Ruchi Sanghvi

It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and…

— Timothy Foote

It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and…

— Allen W. Wood

I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else…

— Hunter S. Thompson

What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which…

— Tony Hoare

With the myriad of new Bible translations on the market today, few stand out. The ESV is one of the few, and…

— Daniel B. Wallace

My shoes are perfect for the very sexy woman who wants to be elegant.

— Christian Louboutin

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

— Coco Chanel

“The way you dress is how you greet the sun and other stars.”

— Kamand Kojouri

I've been making the best movies at Elegant Angel since Tom Byron left.

— Marc Wallice

“Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry.”

— Julie Metz

A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.

— Lord Byron

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

— Vivienne Westwood

Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.

— Donna Tartt