Top 661 Elegant Quotes & Sayings

Elegant persuasion is when the other person thought it was their idea.

Let us be elegant or die! --Amy

Ralston looked down his long, elegant nose at the vile creature at his feet, and said, “You just impugned the honor of my future marchioness. Choose your seconds. I will see you at dawn.” Leaving Oxford sputtering on the ground, Ralston spun on one elegant heel to face Benedick. “When I am done with him, I am coming for your sister. And, if you intend to keep me from her, you had better have an army at your side.

Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

Affected simplicity is an elegant imposture.

I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant - I prefer it - but I can't do it myself. I honestly think it's some form of autistic disorder.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in the still more satisfactory, still more emotionally exciting discovery that the theory is not quite right and has to be worked over again, very much as any other work of art-a painting, a sculpture has to be worked over in the interests of aesthetic perfection. So there is no scientist who is not to some extent worthy of being described as artist or poet.

Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.

Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer.

No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca.

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant. A theory appears to be beautiful or elegant (or simple, if you prefer) when it can be expressed concisely in terms of mathematics we already have. Symmetry exhibits the simplicity. The Foundamental Law is such that the different skins of the onion resemble one another and therefore the math for one skin allows you to express beautifully and simply the phenomenon of the next skin.

Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.

During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.

I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless.

I like clothes that are elegant and comfortable.

I always envisioned myself having a traditional and elegant wedding.

It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.

Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy

Cats are always elegant.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same.

I like to see photographs: I like to see my family. To me, when I open a basic browser, and it's that very elegant silver simple user interface, I am unhappy. I don't need elegant and silver and simple!

As much as I love to portray a character, I also love portraying a more natural, elegant persona - particularly when I get to enjoy the sunshine in comfy, elegant clothes.

What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.

Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl may be graceful, but an elegant woman must be accomplished and well trained. It is the same with things as with persons; we talk of a graceful tree, but of an elegant house or other building. Animals may be graceful, but they cannot be elegant. The movements of a kitten or a young fawn are full of grace; but to call them "elegant" animals would be absurd.

British people don't express when they are in pain. They don't think it's elegant.

To be truly elegant one should not be noticed

True simplicity is elegant.

A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting.

My shoes are perfect for the very sexy woman who wants to be elegant.

No elegant woman follows fashion slavishly.

She is elegant rather than belle.

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

This is an elegant hotel! Room service has an unlisted number.

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

People don't read me and say, 'Oh, it's so clean and elegant.'

There’s nothing better than an elegant cry of despair.

White makes your house more peaceful and elegant.

My mother was a beautiful lady, elegant, chic, and that was the biggest inspiration to me.

One time, I was young. I was skinny. I was elegant. Getting old is terrible.

Somebody can feel elegant without being elegant. It's a personality.

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.

Is the universe 'elegant,' as Brian Greene tells us? Not as far as I can tell, not the usual laws of particle physics, anyway. I think I might find the universal principles of String Theory most elegant - if I only knew what they were.

Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

I wish I could be elegant.

Simon Fraser University would make an elegant ruin

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

To the degree it is efficient, a spaceship is elegant and beautiful.

Halle Berry's style is simple and elegant.

The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.

Elegance is necessarily unnatural, only achieveable at great expense. If you just do something, it won't be elegant, but if you do it and then see what might be more elegant, and do it again, you might, after an unknown number of iterations, get something that is very elegant.

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 inherently complex problems, which often do require complex mechanisms. However, this should not diminish our desire for elegant solutions, which convince by their clarity and effectiveness. Simple, elegant solutions are more effective, but they are harder to find than complex ones, and they require more time, which we too often believe to be unaffordable

Will screw them hard, fast, and in an elegant manner.

Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?