Elegance Quotes

291 quotes by 221 authors

What is elegance? Soap and water! — Cecil Beaton
I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down. — Julie Burchill
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. — Coco Chanel
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. — Coco Chanel
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. — Coco Chanel
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury. — Coco Chanel
Elegance is refusal. — Coco Chanel
Elegance is elimination. — Cristobal Balenciaga
Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered. — Giorgio Armani
Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and… — Oleg Cassini
Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance. — Jon Franklin
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. — Edsger Dijkstra
Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive,… — William Cowper
Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle - these have… — Marie-Luise Gothein
Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and… — Vita Sackville-West
When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words… — Horace
Knowledge is the only elegance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room. — W. Somerset Maugham
What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level that… — R. Buckminster Fuller
The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to… — George Polya

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