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Elegance Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- He endearing elegance of female friendship.
- The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little…
- Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the…
- The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.
- I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience;…
- Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance
- The endearing elegance of female friendship.
More Elegance Quotes
- What is elegance? Soap and water! — Cecil Beaton
- I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped… — Julie Burchill
- Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. — Coco Chanel
- Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of… — Coco Chanel
- Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. — Coco Chanel
- Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury. — Coco Chanel
- Elegance is refusal. — Coco Chanel
- Elegance is elimination. — Cristobal Balenciaga