Top 456 Elegance Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on November 30, 2024.
The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.
In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance...Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible.
Jasmine, the name of which signifies fragrance, is the emblem of delicacy and elegance. It is reared with difficulty in New England, but at the South, puts forth all its graces.
Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.
I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.
My mom has always just been one of those people who handle adversity and challenges, and really everything, with so much grace and elegance. I saw it all the time.
The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent.
Elegance is not catching somebody's eyes, it's staying in somebody's memory
Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.
Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become.
The only great English midfielder in my career was Paul Scholes. He had elegance in him. Others were pretenders.
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
I can't say I prefer blondes, brunettes, or redheads. I like emotion and elegance. Even expensive clothes do not guarantee a good look. You must be yourself above all!
Elegance doesn’t mean being noticed, it means being remembered
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.
By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.
Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.
The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.
I couldn't define my style; that's impossible. I like comfort and elegance with a bit of glamour thrown in. If I like something, I'll wear it for years.
From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which it included.
I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down.
There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.
The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.
A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope.
[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.
I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function
I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.
Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.
My aesthetic is about simplicity, elegance, and comfort, whether that is interpreted in a man's suit or a track suit.
Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.
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. If you are not, then it’s another matter.
I read once that elegance is a privilege of age. I thought, that's so true. You get more comfortable with yourself as you get older.
Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant.
Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence.
My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.
Throw out and keep throwing out. Elegance means elimination.
Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.
Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.
I always loved samurai movies, and I wanted to incorporate that whole level of elegance and just the code of the samurai to 'Conan.'
My mother and grandmother... they were my first muses. The way they dressed and carried themselves was an education in elegance. They defined the word.
The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.
Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct.
Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.
Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.
I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.
Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.
Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.
The noble entitlement bespeaks an élan, a certain type of relationship with your partner. It means formidable technique not displayed lightly. The excitement comes from elegance.
The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.
My definition of beauty is simplicity, elegance, and sensuality. I think that when a woman is in harmony with herself and remains true to her values, she will glow naturally.
I had to cut a lot of things I wanted to keep [in The Art of Elegance]. I'm going to have to do a part two for sure.
Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.
My fancy dress costume of choice is... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for ultimate dressing-up indulgence.
I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
