Best Elegant Words
372 Elegant quotes by 325 unique authors
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The farm was a great place to grow up, but I preferred the Hollywood Hills. My aunt looked like Lucille Ball and everything she touched…
— Sandra Lerner
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I can think of a lot of women clients of mine who are well into their 50s or 60s who are still quintessentially very elegant.
— Bruce Oldfield
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Elegance is like manners. You can’t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week.…
— Aldo Gucci
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We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch
— Marc Newson
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Like the enotmologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes,…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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If you have ever been accused of being rude when you were merely stating the truth, or called a gossip because you like to dwell…
— Mark Kingwell
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It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same.
— Hermann Maier
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What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related?…
— Tony Hoare
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Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve…
— Niklaus Wirth
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The transformation of disease, as exemplified by the case of diabetes, is a valuable and elegant concept that serves to remind us that the tally…
— Deborah Butterfield
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I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else in the English…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to…
— Barbara Walters
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It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their…
— Confucius
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Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong,…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed…
— Eric Butterworth
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No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca.
— Richard Reti
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My mother was a very elegant woman. When a flying saucer landed on the lawn, she turned it over to see if it was Wedgwood.
— Joan Rivers
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No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.
— Ai Weiwei
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Grace can never properly be said to exist without beauty; for it is only in the elegant proportions of beautiful forms that can be found…
— Johann Joachim Winckelmann
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As you know, shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does not have to…
— Trevanian
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Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and noble....In no Book…
— Fisher Ames
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The Thickety is a sinister, magical debut with a marvelous and shocking heroine. J.A. White’s elegant writing and masterful plot kept me turning pages late…
— Lisa McMann
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To be truly elegant one should not be noticed
— Beau Brummell
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A Dream of Undying Fame is a probing, elegant and balanced book. Louis Breger shows how Freud’s traumatic childhood shaped his ambitious, detached and authoritarian…
— Unknown Author
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