Elegance Quotes

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

Not only did she represent inner and outer beauty and elegance, but all the work she did at the end of her life touched so many people. She created this extraordinary legacy.

The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.

Parisian women have an inner elegance that’s envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ageing and seem to acquire more charisma and beauty with time. Who wouldn’t want to be like them? That’s the trick – to embrace the natural progression of life and to be confident.

Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It’s about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

I have so many ways I can explain the ballroom scene. But the essence of the ballroom scene would be elegance, extravagance, and fabulousness to its 100 per cent. It’s a place where you can be whoever you want to be inside of already being who you are.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they’re beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.

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.

I am from the planet of elegance.

I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I’d rather have fun.

What I love about French gardens is the combination of formal elegance and intellectual questioning.

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

Elegance is elimination.

The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.

When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.

No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama’s story. But since the Inauguration, we’ve seen only the president’s present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.

Style should breathe elegance.

I have always admired stylishly confident women who dress with great authority. This lifelong love of elegance began with the humble wardrobe of my late grandmother Mrs. Bennie Frances Davis.

I always loved samurai movies, and I wanted to incorporate that whole level of elegance and just the code of the samurai to ‘Conan.’

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence.

Elegance is eternal and I add my pinch of that ingredient to what I wear.

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.

I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called ‘rock and roll.’

If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they’re beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.

Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That’s why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a nice restaurant and pay a little bit more. It’s for the experience.

True icons are larger than life, unforgettable with an elegance that’s mesmerizingly timeless.

Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories – these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.

Luxury and elegance can be affordable, and I think a MUST!

Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe and Anna Magnani – women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn’t submit to any standard of beauty – they defined it.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

The orchid’s association in Chinese culture with such virtues as elegance, good taste, friendship, and fertility goes all the way back to Confucius himself, who was said to have a particular attachment to the flowers.

Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.

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

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

The great jazz and jazz-influenced singers carry themselves with a certain panache and a certain elegance and, for lack of a better word, self-confidence.

True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind.

It’s unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who’s wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you’re looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.

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.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

Milan is marvellous, picturesque, and full of elegance.

Dorothy B. Hughes – there’s a robust elegance to her writing that I keep responding to again and again. I’ve read her novel ‘In a Lonely Place’ about eight or nine times.

The Stockholm street style is distinctive, with ensembles that exemplify the city’s understated elegance.

Parisian women have an inner elegance that’s envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ageing and seem to acquire more charisma and beauty with time. Who wouldn’t want to be like them? That’s the trick – to embrace the natural progression of life and to be confident.

The Winter Kate-House of Harlow 1960 customer is a multi-tasker, therefore it’s important that they are able to put together an outfit with ease and elegance. Pieces that are easy to mix within their own wardrobe. Easy dressing while maintaining a well put together look.

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.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

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.

When I work a nightclub, I dress up in evening wear. There’s a certain elegance to it all and I like that.

Poker isn’t the roulette wheel of pure chance, nor is it the chess of mathematical elegance and perfect information. Apart from the underlying mathematics, poker depends on the nuanced reading of human intention, interactions, and deceptions.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

Elegance isn’t solely defined by what you wear. It’s how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

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.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

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.

Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

There is no such thing as a natural fit between form and content. Seamless elegance would be tantamount to erasure.

Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler?

Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That’s why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a nice restaurant and pay a little bit more. It’s for the experience.

There’s a certain beauty and majesty to Wimbledon. The elegance, the way the grass looks on TV.

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

I don’t like women who follow fashion in the sense of becoming victims of it. I like women who have elegance, who have allure, who use fashion, rather than the other way around.

The zenith of elegance in any woman’s wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

What is elegance? Soap and water!

The idea of elegance and aristocratic indulgence of an ocean cruise was born out of the image of the rich men and women who ruled the British Empire slowly sailing to India and the Far East while sipping gin and tonic on deck – served by men in white jackets.

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I’d rather have fun.

Elegance is elimination.

I grew up at this incredibly odd intersection in Los Angeles, where it felt like the black ‘hood met black elegance met white gentrification met Latin culture met wetlands.

True icons are larger than life, unforgettable with an elegance that’s mesmerizingly timeless.

Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

Milan is marvellous, picturesque, and full of elegance.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.

I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

Hip-hop saved me. It gave me permission to use language in a certain way. It validated my community and my friends. It gave our slang a certain elegance.

I wanted to have a band that could rock as hard as the Who and sing like the Beatles and the Beach Boys; a band that could play concise, three-and-a-half minute songs with power and elegance.

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

True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind.

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

The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the ‘Times’ obit writer who redesigned its traditional form and added a measure of stylistic elegance.

I remember touring the Medici palace in Florence when I was younger and I was entranced by the beauty and elegance of every space.

Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe and Anna Magnani – women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn’t submit to any standard of beauty – they defined it.

It’s a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence.

There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there’s also an Italian actor I admire a great deal: Alberto Sordi.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

What is elegance? Soap and water!

I Am She is an institution that reflects and personifies the grace, charm, and elegance of an Indian woman.

I Am She is an institution that reflects and personifies the grace, charm, and elegance of an Indian woman.

Maharani Gayatri Devi – she was elegance and simplicity personified.

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

Style has replaced elegance. Before, I believed that style is something a person embodied. But now it’s so easy to buy good style if you have the money.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

The elegance of a sari or the flirtiness of a lehenga is matchless.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

I don’t like women who follow fashion in the sense of becoming victims of it. I like women who have elegance, who have allure, who use fashion, rather than the other way around.

A modern arboretum brings us that ancient forest and, with it, a changed apprehension of time, a renewed appreciation of the elegance of natural form and a renewed sense of wonder at the variety of the world we inhabit.

I was always intrigued by the idea of bringing things together that are considered taboo or risque and bringing them together with something of high elegance and sophistication.

Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the ‘Times’ obit writer who redesigned its traditional form and added a measure of stylistic elegance.

Riding clothes are ageless and timeless, and I love to incorporate that comfort and elegance in my life.

The zenith of elegance in any woman’s wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

When I work a nightclub, I dress up in evening wear. There’s a certain elegance to it all and I like that.

At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the people who do it. The extraordinary aesthetic of the natural world is not obvious to someone who never leaves the inner city. Appreciation of the elegance and power of physical law is an acquired taste.

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

It’s a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?

I’ve played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.

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

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.