Elegance Quotes

291 Elegance quotes by 211 unique authors

Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain… — Wynton Marsalis
In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision. — Lionel Messi
No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family,… — Dee Dee Myers
If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure. — Marcel Proust
The Winter Kate-House of Harlow 1960 customer is a multi-tasker, therefore it's important that they are able to put together an outfit with ease and… — Nicole Richie
Elegance is inferior to virtue. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully… — Bruce Springsteen
The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement. — Andre Leon Talley
I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them… — Pete Townshend
Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt. — Donatella Versace
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. — Leonardo da Vinci
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it. — Diana Vreeland
Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal. — Diana Vreeland
It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity. — Vivienne Westwood
One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance… — Douglas Rushkoff
You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely. — Agatha Christie
An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms. — Salvador Dali
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. — Jane Austen
Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves. — Kim Stanley Robinson
come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain — W S Merwin
I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have… — Charlotte Bronte
These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and… — Charles Baudelaire
I have found my star. She is beauty and grace. Elegance and goodness. My laughter in winter. She is courageous and strong. Bold and tempting.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut feeling is that… — Muriel Barbery
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. — Coco Chanel

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