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372 Elegant quotes by 325 unique authors

We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No,… — Michael Foot
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or… — John Rawls
What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and,… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky. — Roger Tory Peterson
Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is… — Eric S. Raymond
Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York… — Noam Chomsky
It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it — M.F.K. Fisher
We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also… — Unknown Author
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject is nothing less… — Ben Fountain
Ann Sothern's dressing room...was unbelievably lush and beautiful. More elegant than many homes I've been in. — Hedda Hopper
God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to… — John Stott
A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work. — Steve McConnell
The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the… — Camille Saint-Saens
Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all. — Vernor Vinge
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient… — Jack Vance
Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get… — Aristotle Onassis
One would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded by greater depths… — Martin Gardner
I was deeply moved by Richard Blanco's reading of his inaugural poem-a timely and elegant tribute to the great diversity of American experience. And now… — Natasha Trethewey
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory… — Murray Gell-Mann
Glamour is an attitude-it's the expression of a certain kind of confidence. A glamorous woman is always elegant, but she also possesses an air of… — Ralph Lauren
Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant generation… — John Kenneth Galbraith
And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex… — William McDonough
A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth. — Nick Lowe
The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come up, from scratch,… — Paul Lockhart
To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not… — Italo Calvino

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