Thoughtful Quote by Marcel Proust

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

— Stendhal

“I could picture how Caprice was before we lost her. Dark hair, beautiful smile, intelligent hazel eyes, quick wit. Now gone. Just gone. Like…

— Cheyenne McCray

“Gratior est pulchro veniens de corpore virtus—Virtue appears peculiarly graceful when associated with beauty.”

— Matthew Henry

Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise, roused the old to sensibility, and subdued the rigorous…

— Samuel Johnson

“We see beauty in simplicity because we can see its underlying efficiency.”

— Andrew Thomas

“Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent nature—a mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it.”

— Ashim Shanker

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

— Leon Battista Alberti

Elegance thrives on exclusion.

— Mason Cooley

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober…

— Paulo Coelho

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

— Jean Genet

“We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness.”

— Rick Riordan