Elegance Quotes · Page 10

Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding…

— Julia Ward Howe

Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.

— Christian Dior

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— Matthew Weiner

I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function

— Anonymous

“When a woman is really in touch with her sensuality, she naturally draws beautiful things, people, and deeply nourishing relationships into her…

— Lebo Grand

“As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price.”

— John Lewis Gaddis

Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of…

— Oleg Cassini

I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but…

— Douglas Coupland

I remember the night when I was playing at Birdland, and Duke Ellington walked in wearing that cap of his and with…

— Maynard Ferguson

“- 'Poise is perfect balance, an equanimity of body and mind, complete composure whatever the social scene. Elegant dress, immaculate grooming, and…

— Muriel Spark

There was a real sophistication and elegance to (Batman: The Animated Series). It certainly appealed to kids but had a depth that…

— Jim Lee

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by…

— Horace

“I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman.…

— Wynton Marsalis

Experimental music scores are enigmatic, opaque, demanding, irritating, humorous, childlike; the best, like Cardew's Treatise, are also inspiring, giving rise, on occasion,…

— John Tilbury

“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

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

— Lionel Messi

Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still…

— Angela Merkel

True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one…

— Coco Chanel

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

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of…

— Coco Chanel

Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it…

— Carolina Herrera

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

— Linda Bender

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

— Paul Fournel

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 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

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

— Nate Lowman

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

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

— Abba Eban

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

— Helena Christensen

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

— John Dewey

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

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

— Diana Vreeland

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

— Riccardo Tisci