Elegance Quotes · Page 17

[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the…

— Dorothy Parker

Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age

— Anne Gracie

For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are…

— Richard Dawkins

In real-world Finance, they don't pay for elegance. They pay for power - predictive power.

— Robert Haugen

Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows,…

— William Cowper

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

— Carine Roitfeld

Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not…

— Mary Ellen Chase

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

— John Green

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order…

— William Bartram

The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in…

— Frederick Sommer

Elegance is not catching somebody's eyes, it's staying in somebody's memory

— Giorgio Armani

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

— Maynard Ferguson

It is important to notice that these badly functioning designs were praised for 'elegance.' But elegance as theoretical scientists apply it is…

— Ralph Caplan

Nothing is too beautiful, nothing is too expensive.

— Ettore Bugatti

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

— Abba Eban

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— Ann Reinking

Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.

— Yves Saint Laurent

It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.

— Nick Bantock

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

— Paulo Coelho

Physical elegance comes from the body. This is no superficial matter but rather the way that man found to honour the way…

— Paulo Coelho

What is elegance? Soap and water!

— Cecil Beaton

How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a…

— Edsger Dijkstra

I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.

— Rick Moody

For we have come by different ways to this place... I can tell by the natural ease with which you wear fine…

— Robert James Waller