The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I have a renewed commitment to elegance, she said, in case you think I'm just spending money for the fun of it. ” — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
“Some people’s elegance was only skin-deep, scrape off a little bit of the veneer and you got the real wood—common” — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine. — Girolamo Savonarola Copy Share Image
Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
“True beauty is not adorned, but simply embodied.In the quiet truth between a rose and a woman lies a refined reality: Elegance,with… — Henrietta Newton Martin, Author- The Greatest of All Romance- Your Potters Call Copy Share Image
I want men to be more chic, and Japanese style has that kind of sophisticated elegance. — Roberto Cavalli Copy Share Image
Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Elegance is the correct posture if the writing is to be perfect. It’s the same with life: when all superfluous things have… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Ralph Ellison is a classic work of erudition, grace, and elegance. Rampersad offers us an Ellison whose gifts and warts orbit the… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Science has been effective at furthering our understanding of nature because the scientific ethos is based on three key principles: (1) follow… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Let me go out on a limb and suggest that those who see hints of a new class ideology developing around information… — Steven Weber 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
Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
“SEEING HER Time stands still in a swelling moment where my curiosity draws me to be still in thought as the breaking… — Luccini Shurod Copy Share Image
Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind. — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
