Elegance Quotes · Page 9

Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

— Emile M. Cioran

I Am She is an institution that reflects and personifies the grace, charm, and elegance of an Indian woman.

— Sushmita Sen

It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

— Cesar Romero

The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

— Andre Leon Talley

I like to think that I can introduce people to the idea of simplicity and elegance.

— Giorgio Armani

I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people.

— Volker Bertelmann

“In times like these, who had either the leisure or the inclination to indulge in a touch of elegance?”

— Yu Hua

Elegance is necessarily unnatural, only achieveable at great expense. If you just do something, it won't be elegant, but if you do…

— Erik Naggum

I felt Michael Jackson was inspired a little bit more from the elegance of a Fred Astaire. Michael loved Sammy Davis, Jr.…

— Kenny Ortega

Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow…

— William S. Burroughs

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in…

— Paulo Coelho

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as…

— William P. Alford

It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others.Usually one must enter into a friendship with a person who has accomplished…

— Hafez

Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That’s why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go…

— Travis Kalanick

Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch,…

— William Butler Yeats

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth; they are not playing with the inner character.

— Christian Louboutin

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

— Christian Lacroix

“Beauty might be a gift to our souls from the heavens. Luxury, purchased. But suddenly she understood. There was strength in elegance.”

— Lynn Sheene

A man who relentlessly perspires to be excellent evidently inspires many with his intelligence and elegance.

— Anuj

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies…

— Anonymous

Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.

— Oleg Cassini

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.

— Rita Hayworth

Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence.

— Elie Saab

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

— Samuel Johnson

I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.

— David Suzuki

What I love about French gardens is the combination of formal elegance and intellectual questioning.

— Monty Don

I had to cut a lot of things I wanted to keep [in The Art of Elegance]. I'm going to have to…

— Kristin Chenoweth

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I always loved samurai movies, and I wanted to incorporate that whole level of elegance and just the code of the samurai…

— Jason Momoa

“Being a sensual woman gives you the Desirability Advantage; this simply means it essentially enhances your allure, elegance, and lusciousness.”

— Lebo Grand

I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesnt date.

— Alice Temperley

I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

When I work a nightclub, I dress up in evening wear. There's a certain elegance to it all and I like that.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be…

— Walter Savage Landor

By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.

— Abdelkader El Djezairi

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