Elegance famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
-- Abba Eban -
You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
-- Agatha Christie -
Elegance is innate...individual...eternal...it stands the test of time!
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
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.
-- Aldo Gucci -
Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.
-- Alice Munro -
I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesnt date.
-- Alice Temperley -
The only great English midfielder in my career was Paul Scholes. He had elegance in him. Others were pretenders.
-- Andrea Pirlo -
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.
-- Angela Merkel -
A man who relentlessly perspires to be excellent evidently inspires many with his intelligence and elegance.
-- Anuj -
Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring.
-- Carmel Snow -
Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.
-- Carole Bouquet -
Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.
-- Carolina Herrera -
Do you know what elegance is? It is not only what you're wearing. It is how you wear it. who you are inside.
-- Carolina Herrera -
Individuality will always be one of the conditions of real elegance
-- Christian Dior -
Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show.
-- Christian Dior -
For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.
-- Christian Lacroix -
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.
-- Christian Lacroix -
Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.
-- Coco Chanel -
Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.
-- Coco Chanel -
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
-- Coco Chanel -
Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.
-- Craig Reucassel -
Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
-- Diana Vreeland -
Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?
-- Edouard Manet -
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
-- Edsger Dijkstra -
Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence.
-- Elie Saab -
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.
-- Erik Naggum -
The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.
-- Frederick Sommer -
Elegance is not catching somebody's eyes, it's staying in somebody's memory
-- Giorgio Armani -
Elegance doesn’t mean being noticed, it means being remembered
-- Giorgio Armani -
Elegance is not to be noticed, but to be remembered.
-- Giorgio Armani -
Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered.
-- Giorgio Armani -
Elegance is not being noticed, it's about being remembered.
-- Giorgio Armani -
Elegance is not about being noticed, its about being remembered.
-- Giorgio Armani -
Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity.
-- Gordon Willis -
There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.
-- Helena Christensen -
I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.
-- Henri Cartier-Bresson -
What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
-- Henri Poincare -
Fashion is an expression of the times. Elegance is something else again.
-- Horst P. Horst -
You can acquire chic and elegance, but style itself is a rare thing.
-- Irene Sharaff -
True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind.
-- Isabella Rossellini -
Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing.
-- Jean Paul Gaultier -
Throw out and keep throwing out. Elegance means elimination.
-- Jean-Michel Frank -
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.
-- John Tuzo Wilson -
The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.
-- Joseph Addison -
In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
-- Joseph Joubert -
Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.
-- Kim Stanley Robinson -
Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct.
-- Lisa Randall -
Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.
-- Louisa May Alcott -
In general I don't like definitions, but 'Minimalist' is a term that means elegance and openness, so I would prefer to be called a Minimalist than something else.
-- Ludovico Einaudi -
Exactness of intention produces elegance of style.
-- Nathan Milstein -
It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.
-- Nick Bantock -
Fashion anticipates ... elegance is a state of mind.
-- Oleg Cassini -
Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.
-- Oleg Cassini -
Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness.
-- Paola Antonelli -
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother
-- Patricia Highsmith -
You have to look good when you are riding, you have to impress your adversary with your elegance. To look good is already to go fast.
-- Paul Fournel -
Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.
-- Paulo Coelho -
Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.
-- Philippe Starck -
Everywhere, I'm looking to reach elegance and intelligence.
-- Philippe Starck -
I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.
-- Rita Hayworth -
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
-- Robert Fitzgerald -
So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.
-- Robert Haugen -
Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?
-- Stephen Dunn -
It should be judged primarily on grace, elegance and beauty rather than simply on mechanic tumbling.
-- Svetlana Khorkina -
Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.
-- Thomas de Quincey -
New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.
-- Tom Piazza -
I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
-- Vanna White -
It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.
-- Vivienne Westwood -
Elegance and beauty have been banished.
-- Yves Saint Laurent -
Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
-- Yves Saint Laurent -
Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
-- Yves Saint Laurent -
There are very few things in life I find that are as magical in person as you imagine them to be. Cannes was one of those experiences that held up to that magical essence. It's the epitome of class and elegance for the entertainment industry.
-- Gianna Simone -
Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance.
-- Molly O'Neill -
A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance...Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible.
-- Pierre L. van den Berghe -
Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?
-- Charles Gounod -
I am very seldom interested in applications. I am more interested in the elegance of a problem. Is it a good problem, an interesting problem?
-- Claude Shannon -
Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.
-- Philip Levine
