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Elegant Quotes by Italo Calvino
- 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…
- ...and every Wednesday the perfumed young lady slips me a hundred-crown note to leave her alone with the convict. And by Thursday the hundred crowns…
More Elegant Quotes
- 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… — Andrea Bocelli
- I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped… — 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… — Christian Dior
- God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how… — Thomas Brooks
- The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering… — 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… — 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… — Alistair Cooke