Elegance Quotes

291 Elegance quotes by 211 unique authors

Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many… — Beverley Nichols
Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun. — Yves Saint Laurent
Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move… — Yves Saint Laurent
Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance. — Yves Saint Laurent
Elegance and beauty have been banished. — Yves Saint Laurent
Elegance and comfort are not incompatible, and whoever maintains the contrary simply doesn't know what he's talking about — Salvatore Ferragamo
That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people. - The Elegance of the Hedgehog — Muriel Barbery
Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance. — Jean Genet
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician… — Clifford Geertz
My fancy dress costume of choice is... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for… — Ellie Goulding
The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential… — Edsger Dijkstra
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. — Benjamin Disraeli
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement. — Abba Eban
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. — Albert Einstein
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart. — Henry Fielding
Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be… — Carolina Herrera
Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read. — Carolina Herrera
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply. — Bell Hooks
When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to… — Michio Kaku
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism. — Christian Lacroix
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. — Yves Saint Laurent
Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing? — Yves Saint Laurent
Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful… — Christian Louboutin

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