“...elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid...” — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
You can acquire chic and elegance, but style itself is a rare thing. — Irene Sharaff Copy Share Image
“Temujin watched Borte's ballet, her elegance on the fulcrum of her hips.” — Bryn Hammond Copy Share Image
The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus... . We must demand, at least, intention. — Paola Antonelli Copy Share Image
The people experiencing the most pain tend to be the ones who are always trying to make others smile. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Elegance is not only in your outer looking. There is an internal elegance that is much prettier. It is in your heart,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I couldn't define my style; that's impossible. I like comfort and elegance with a bit of glamour thrown in. If I like… — Jemima Khan Copy Share Image
“Champ de Mars was long and beautiful in the twilight promise of the lustrous night.” — Armonia Sole Copy Share Image
A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Personally, my interest in social history ends around 1959, by which time I was an adolescent. I've always attributed this to my… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
I think that when you're taking pictures with my principles, you can try anything. Dare to do a lot of things -… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
“If there are to be rules, they must be articulable and defensible, like etiquette. I do not do anything simply because my… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
Poker isn't the roulette wheel of pure chance, nor is it the chess of mathematical elegance and perfect information. Apart from the… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
I grew up at this incredibly odd intersection in Los Angeles, where it felt like the black 'hood met black elegance met… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
We have a direct contact with our clothes; they're like a little house. You have to feel good and at home in… — Christophe Lemaitre Copy Share Image
Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own,… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
It’s a most natural way for me. I can tell people I can run in a saree and I can do five… — Vidya Balan Copy Share Image
“For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
For the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
In spite of the fact that religion looks backward to revealed truth while science looks forward to new vistas and discoveries, both… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
An elegant simplicity is an understated, organic aesthetic that contrasts with the excess of consumerist lifestyles. Drawing from influences ranging from Zen… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Elegance is eternal and I add my pinch of that ingredient to what I wear. — Sonu Kakkar Copy Share Image
Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance! — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image