Elegant Quotes · Page 7

A knighthood would be a bit too much. An OBE or an MBE or whatever they are called, one of those would…

— Steven Berkoff

Dont wear dresses that are too tight. A size number is just a number. If the fit is comfortable, it will look…

— Tadashi Shoji

I hate gowns. It's a rare gown indeed that is cool. Most are elegant or whatever, a quality I don't put a…

— Mindy Kaling

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

— Ernest Bramah

Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich.

— Charles Saatchi

“We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we…

— Marguerite de Angeli

There will be no propriety in the spectacle of an elegant interior approached by a low mean entrance.

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant…

— Belva Plain

Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, "How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?" It is a dazzling and…

— Bill Ayers

I thought Hillary Clinton was remarkably elegant and intelligent and focusing on the issues even though her opponent was trying to bring…

— Natalie Portman

Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to…

— Charles Krauthammer

I love regal looks on the Oscars red carpet. I just love old-Hollywood glamour. I love hair pulled back off the face,…

— Giuliana Rancic

Grace Kelly is my main inspiration, for her timeless beauty. I like Jennifer Lawrence for her fun, down-to-earth style, and Taylor Swift…

— Gracie Gold

There is nothing like roast chicken. It is helpful and agreeable, the perfect dish no matter what the circumstances. Elegant or homey,…

— Laurie Colwin

To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of…

— Alexander Herzen

You don't need Tom Wolfe to tell you that the Buckhead section of Atlanta is the jewel of the city, an area…

— Florence Fabricant

On the waves of the brook she dances by, The light, the lovely dragon-fly; She dances here, she dances there, The shimmering,…

— Heinrich Heine

After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so…

— Miranda July

The enjoyments of elegant life you early chose to abandon, preferring to wander for many successive years over the rudest portions of…

— John Jeremiah Bigsby

Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey…

— Samuel Johnson

I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is…

— Bill Nighy

I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between…

— Ted Nelson

Elegant in its simplicity and practicality, Lee has distilled many powerful leadership strategies into the lessons many of us learned as children.…

— George Bodenheimer

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges…

— Steve Jobs

Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.

— Adele

I really dig Tom Ford. It fits big dudes, but it's the cleanest, most elegant-looking clothing ever.

— P. J. Tucker

The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.

— Christopher Hitchens

Not taking yourself seriously is one of the most elegant things in the world.

— Rick Owens

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

— John Henry Newman

Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky.

— Roger Tory Peterson

India is criss-crossed with the most elegant wells that tap into the shallow aquifer.

— Rohini Nilekani

When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without…

— Henry Paulson

It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.

— Stanislaw Ulam

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

It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the…

— Confucius

I prefer single statement pieces like solitaire earrings and a elegant ring.

— Gauri Khan

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

— Honore de Balzac

Versace was and still is about the sophisticated woman who is elegant, not afraid of her own sensuality, and not afraid to…

— Nicki Minaj

I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless.

— Massimo Vignelli

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

— Lebo Grand