Beauty Quote by Jane Austen

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

— Anonymous

I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I never appear…

— Edmond Rostand

In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension.

— Horatio Greenough

“Pretension is a question of optics. The pessimist sees pretension as a sham. The optimist views it as innocent, tragicomic, an excess of effort.…

— Dan Fox

Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.

— Christian Dior

Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.

— Carole Bouquet

I still lack to a considerable degree that naturally superior kind of manner that I would dearly like to possess.

— Heinrich Himmler

Elegance is a discipline of life.

— Oscar de la Renta

Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.

— Seneca the Younger

Elegance is always in style for men.

— Donatella Versace

You must, if it's possible, be born with a kind of elegance. It's part of you, of yourself.

— Hubert de Givenchy

“I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a…

— Mary Wollstonecraft