Elegant Quotes · Page 4

“...mistaken for the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female.”

— Jane Austen

“You are the best of our people, but you are not yet good enough.”

— Roxane Gay

“True sensuality is classy, not trashy.”

— Lebo Grand

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

— Henry Fielding

There’s nothing better than an elegant cry of despair.

— William Goyen

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

— Renee Fleming

“...but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry.”

— Julie Metz

Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane.

— Diablo Cody

A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Rockin' in the club, catch me on an elephant. Young Kreayshawn grimey, but I feel so elegant.

— Kreayshawn

I think that a woman that is elegant herself is somebody who can dress herself easily and effortlessly.

— Alice Temperley

The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.

— Jeff Greenfield

New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes…

— Barbara Walters

An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.

— Coco Chanel

I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead…

— Amory Lovins

The 20-minute walk I take is better than the 3-mile run I never start. Having people over for take-out is better than…

— Gretchen Rubin

My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet'…

— Zoey Deutch

I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual…

— Camilla Belle

I have a gorgeous coat that I found at a vintage fair - it's just so elegant. Unfortunately, it has a massive…

— Jessica Raine

Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a…

— Wallace Shawn

We do not live in a world that mainly suffers bad policies due to lack of ideas about better ones, or lack…

— Patri Friedman

Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has…

— Jeremy Grantham

They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can lead a happy…

— Anna Lee

It is important to notice that these badly functioning designs were praised for 'elegance.' But elegance as theoretical scientists apply it is…

— Ralph Caplan

In Advance of All Parting is a tough, unsentimental examination of marital grief. Musically elegant and inventive, understated and passionate, the poems…

— Chase Twichell

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Patience's mental imprecations reached new heights. Mrs. Chadwick had not lied- Vane Cynster was the very epitome of an elegant gentleman. His…

— Stephanie Laurens

I do think there is a completely different notion to glamour today. I think modern glamour is more effortless, easy, and real.…

— Roksanda Ilincic

Get people talking. Learn to ask questions that will elicit answers about what is most interesting or vivid in their lives. Nothing…

— William Zinsser

I was really blown away and inspired by everything that she [Audrey Hepburn] had done for children via and through UNICEF and…

— Liv Tyler

Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and…

— Fisher Ames

I've been making the best movies at Elegant Angel since Tom Byron left.

— Marc Wallice

“The way you dress is how you greet the sun and other stars.”

— Kamand Kojouri

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

— Coco Chanel

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

— Vivienne Westwood

A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.

— Lord Byron

I have never been graceful, never been elegant.

— Rachel Riley

My shoes are perfect for the very sexy woman who wants to be elegant.

— Christian Louboutin

Halle Berry's style is simple and elegant.

— Denise Lewis