Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way. — Edoardo Ponti Copy Share Image
Maharani Gayatri Devi - she was elegance and simplicity personified. — Kirti Kulhari Copy Share Image
Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“The radiance of dignity and grace creates a profound elegance which exists whether anyone is watching or not.” — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“Elegance is achieved when, having discarded all superfluous things, we discover simplicity and concentration.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“I cannot help suspecting that the more elegance, the less virtue in all times and countries.” — John Adams Copy Share Image
I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun. — Heather Graham Copy Share Image
Amelie' was a very precise, a very composed performance - ultra-defined, down to the tips of her fingernails, the ends of her… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
I'm quite into the French way - simple elegance with just a suggestion of sexiness, nothing vulgar. — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
The idea of elegance and aristocratic indulgence of an ocean cruise was born out of the image of the rich men and… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is,… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
I think there is an elegance and balance to design in nature that is the starting point for creating something of beauty.… — Dominic Jones Copy Share Image
“love it when you can bring really great design and simple capability to something that doesn’t cost much,” he said as he… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past,… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life… Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which… — Melvin Schwartz Copy Share Image
Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life. Because I do believe in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Indeed, "brute force" solutions are often characteristic of advanced cultures, not primitive ones. The Romans and their predecessors spent a long time… — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image