Elegance Quotes

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

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

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

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.

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.

What is elegance? Soap and water!

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.

I am from the planet of elegance.

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

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

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

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

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

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

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

Elegance is refusal.

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.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

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.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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