Elegance Quotes · Page 11

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

— Coco Chanel

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 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

“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

“It was like they all had their backs to me, even the ones facing me. Their disconnect was what elegant meant. Like…

— Ali Smith

True Elegance and Beauty starts with your mind. Embrace the idea that you are better than you suppose. Reach for a greater…

— Christel Tait

I have found my star. She is beauty and grace. Elegance and goodness. My laughter in winter. She is courageous and strong.…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

It's unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who's wearing them. Take a…

— Anonymous

Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

I wanted to have a band that could rock as hard as the Who and sing like the Beatles and the Beach…

— Eric Carmen

Not only did she represent inner and outer beauty and elegance, but all the work she did at the end of her…

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

The orchid's association in Chinese culture with such virtues as elegance, good taste, friendship, and fertility goes all the way back to…

— Lawrence Osborne

“We sometimes demonstrated a kind of destructive elegance, as we fight to kill that which makes us unique.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

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

— Lebo Grand

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

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— Christian Dior

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

— Carolina Herrera

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

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

— Rick Moody

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

Elegance and Perfection in every little move,A smile so captivating that steals your heart away,No heartbeat,No thoughts,just you falling in love!

— Laylablack

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

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

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory

— Coco Chanel

There's this British elegance that we, at times, have really missed in the States. We've always been more of a sportswear culture.

— Paul Weller

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 feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

— Bell Hooks

I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my…

— H. R. Giger

My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.

— Fernando J. Corbato

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Riccardo Tisci