Elegant Quotes

372 quotes by 333 authors

Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes. — Adele
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. — Josh Billings
I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses:… — Andrea Bocelli
I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down. — Julie Burchill
Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane. — Diablo Cody
You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof… — Christian Dior
God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may… — Thomas Brooks
The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies… — Benjamin Franklin
Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. — Andre Simon
Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years.… — Henry Fielding
The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel. — Robert Grudin
When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling the elegant orgies… — Alistair Cooke
The unwearable of high heels is self-evidently all around us, coming to a head at the average wedding reception, a uniformly high-heeled occasion. In our… — Caitlin Moran
I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up. — Vanna White
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
Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a… — E F Schumacher
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but… — Thomas Jefferson
Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to… — Dan Millman
The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some 50 years ago… — Hermann Kolbe

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