Elegance Quotes

Elegance is refusal.

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

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

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

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

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

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.

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

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

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

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.

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.

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.'

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.