Best 197 quotes in «elegance quotes» category

Modesty is the highest elegance

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

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

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

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

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

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

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

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

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

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

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.

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

She was temptation wrapped in casual elegance.

Quality means conformance to requirements, not elegance.

Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.

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

Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.

Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.

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.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

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

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

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

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

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?

Throw out and keep throwing out. Elegance means elimination.

What is elegance? Soap and water!

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

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?

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.

A beautiful view accords most with an elegant soul!

A herd of gods tripped over themselves running after her.

Almost every woman inherently wants to have the 'desirability advantage,' but few are willing to admit not to mention work on it. The following advice is strictly meant for sensual ladies: Don't be afraid to be your most gorgeous self or to look sexy. Yes, it will give you an unfair advantage, but what's really important is that it will teach you the art of living a sensual lifestyle, an art without which life (and love) would be utterly boring if not depressing.

An elegant behavior, an elegant look, an elegant word, an elegant posture, an elegant idea, they are all moonlight, mysterious and magical, calming and peaceful!