Elegance Quotes
291 quotes by 221 authors
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What is elegance? Soap and water!
— Cecil Beaton
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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
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Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
— Coco Chanel
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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
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Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
— Coco Chanel
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Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
— Coco Chanel
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Elegance is refusal.
— Coco Chanel
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Elegance is elimination.
— Cristobal Balenciaga
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Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered.
— Giorgio Armani
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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
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Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.
— Jon Franklin
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
— Edsger Dijkstra
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Knowledge is the only elegance.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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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
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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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