Elegance Quotes

291 Elegance quotes by 211 unique authors

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea. — Craig Reucassel
Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand. — Donna Tartt
The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed. — Jeff Greenfield
What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration? — Henri Poincare
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work… — Edsger Dijkstra
In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance. — Joseph Joubert
Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage of development of… — Murray Gell-Mann
Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing. — Jean Paul Gaultier
I like to think that I can introduce people to the idea of simplicity and elegance. — Giorgio Armani
Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn't have it naked, she'll never it clothed. — Karl Lagerfeld
All the great artists of the world slowly slowly start growing a quality of feminineness, grace, elegance, exquisiteness. A certain flavor of softness, relaxedness, calmness… — Rajneesh
My background may be common, but I have specialized in elegance. — Unknown Author
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak;… — Unknown Author
Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one… — John Tuzo Wilson
Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection… — Chen-Ning Yang
Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The… — Julian Coolidge
Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside. — Coco Chanel
Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it. — Claes Oldenburg
Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity. — Gordon Willis
My idea of elegance – and this refers to women as well as men – is that someone is elegant when he or she shows… — Stefano Pilati
Throw out and keep throwing out. Elegance means elimination. — Unknown Author
It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame. — Joan Fontaine
I can't say I prefer blondes, brunettes, or redheads. I like emotion and elegance. Even expensive clothes do not guarantee a good look. You must… — Robert Pattinson
There are many hypotheses in physics of almost comparable brillance and elegance that have been rejected because they did not survive such a confrontation with… — Carl Sagan

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