Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My fancy dress costume of choice is... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail.… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
Style has replaced elegance. Before, I believed that style is something a person embodied. But now it's so easy to buy good… — Nicola Formichetti Copy Share Image
It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame. — Joan Fontaine Copy Share Image
It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Amelie' was a very precise, a very composed performance - ultra-defined, down to the tips of her fingernails, the ends of her… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
The only great English midfielder in my career was Paul Scholes. He had elegance in him. Others were pretenders. — Andrea Pirlo Copy Share Image
I wanted to give young girls something positive to look up to…I wanted to give them their Blizzard of Aahhhs, Ski Movie… — Lynsey Dyer Copy Share Image
Scientists often talk of parsimony (as in "the simplest explanation is probably correct," also known as Occam's razor), but we should not… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has… — John Ramsay McCulloch Copy Share Image
It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others.Usually one must enter into a friendship with a person who has accomplished… — Hafez Copy Share Image
He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die young—and… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I remember the night when I was playing at Birdland, and Duke Ellington walked in wearing that cap of his and with… — Maynard Ferguson Copy Share Image
Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
“As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price.” — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now. — Don Altman Copy Share Image
Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness. — Paola Antonelli Copy Share Image
Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing. — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Elegance is not catching somebody's eyes, it's staying in somebody's memory — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
Dorothy B. Hughes - there's a robust elegance to her writing that I keep responding to again and again. I've read her… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
I think my most favorite subject was Lena Horne, because she embodies soul and grace and elegance and 'street'. She embodies everything.… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
Europiana is our answer to Americana. I set out to retain the elegance and charm of our music and the feelings it… — Jack Savoretti Copy Share Image
Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Tiffany’s blue box is a slogan without words. It stands for elegance and packaging and quality and “price is no object.” — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Steve Beaton - The adonis of darts, what poise, what elegance - a true roman gladiator with plenty of hair wax. — Sid Waddell Copy Share Image
Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves. — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“The elegance of etiquette is a timeless expression of class which transcends social status, demographics, educational level, and ethnicity. Good manners say… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
