Elegance Quotes · Page 12

Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it…

— Carolina Herrera

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

— Coco Chanel

“As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price.”

— John Lewis Gaddis

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

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of…

— Oleg Cassini

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

— Lebo Grand

“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

The tailoring may be a softer, more draped, but I don't believe it's any less smart. For sure it feels more relaxed,…

— Patrick Grant

One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare…

— Tony Kushner

Intelligence is an elegance of excellence with an endurance of empathy, efficiency and effervescence of self-reliance with self-confidence besides an effective respect…

— Anuj Somany

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant…

— Karl Lagerfeld

I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period…

— Laz Alonso

On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can…

— Feist

There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there's also…

— Alfred Molina

Cate Blanchett is mesmerizing. I don't know why. It's beyond my understanding. Why we all want to work with her is she…

— Brad Pitt

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

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

— Elie Saab

“Because he doesn't know he carries within him a supreme elegance, I say it for him.”

— Marguerite Duras

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

— Oleg Cassini

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

— Anonymous

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

— Anuj

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

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

— Christian Lacroix

“We won’t lower ourselves to your level, but if it makes you happy to destroy our elegance, then go ahead!”

— David Winner

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

— Lynn Sheene

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

— Volker Bertelmann

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

— Christian Louboutin

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

— Yu Hua

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

— Giorgio Armani

Watching Federer is like looking at a work of art. It's elegance, he did everything magnificently. I became enchanted by him.

— Carlos Alcaraz

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

“Nature is so beautiful and so full of elegance that it is beyond words! But because man has focused its beauty to…

— Dada Bhagwan

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

— Dorothy Parker

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

— Edsger Dijkstra

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

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

— Sylvia Kristel

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

— Paulo Coelho