Best 197 quotes in «elegance quotes» category

Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?

I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

I think there's a kind of elegance to it, to work within that framework where what you don't see is often more enticing.

I think you are born chic. You cannot be chic. It is something you cannot learn.

I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.

It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance.

It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.

It should be judged primarily on grace, elegance and beauty rather than simply on mechanic tumbling.

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.

Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

Modesty is the highest elegance

My goal is never to copy. Create a new style, clear luminous colors and feel the elegance of the models.

My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you're beauty and elegance.

New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.

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

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.

Quality means conformance to requirements, not elegance.

Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.

Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.

She was temptation wrapped in casual elegance.

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.

The elegance of the Italian South is a very strong elegance and it is one that I bring. It is a sexy elegance - or at least, let's say less chaste.

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.

So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.

Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.

That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent.

Steve Beaton - The adonis of darts, what poise, what elegance - a true roman gladiator with plenty of hair wax.

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.

The only great English midfielder in my career was Paul Scholes. He had elegance in him. Others were pretenders.

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

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

The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.

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?

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.

We believe elegance can be casual. We believe gracefulness can be compatible with fits of laughter. We believe in living a colorful life

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