Elegance Quotes

291 Elegance quotes by 211 unique authors

I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes. — Rita Hayworth
Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself. — Carole Bouquet
I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it… — Terry Teachout
Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity. — Massimo Vignelli
Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games… — John Fowles
Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many… — Edward Abbey
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother — Patricia Highsmith
True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats. — Emile M. Cioran
If you live in this world with kindness, if you don't add to other people's burdens, but if you try to serve love, when the… — John O'Donohue
I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at… — Unknown Author
To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now. — Don Altman
I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house. — Meg Ryan
The noble entitlement bespeaks an élan, a certain type of relationship with your partner. It means formidable technique not displayed lightly. The excitement comes from… — Kevin McKenzie
Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and… — Paulo Coelho
Elegance is not about being noticed, its about being remembered. — Giorgio Armani
Elegance doesn’t mean being noticed, it means being remembered — Giorgio Armani
The only great English midfielder in my career was Paul Scholes. He had elegance in him. Others were pretenders. — Andrea Pirlo
MY INSPIRATION FOR THIS LIMITED EDITION DESIGN WAS BASED ON THE LEGACY OF HENNESSY AS A BRAND. TO ME, HENNESSY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT QUALITY,… — Shepard Fairey
... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he… — Roger McGuinn
Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is… — William Hazlitt
Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings? — Edouard Manet
My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to… — William Bartram
The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to… — Lawrence M. Krauss
Fashion is an expression of the times. Elegance is something else again. — Horst P. Horst

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