Best 197 quotes in «elegance quotes» category

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.

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

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

Quality means conformance to requirements, not elegance.

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.

Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.

Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.

She was temptation wrapped in casual 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

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

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

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

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

The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.

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.

Throw out and keep throwing out. Elegance means elimination.

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

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

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

What is elegance? Soap and water!

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

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

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?

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.

You can acquire chic and elegance, but style itself is a rare thing.

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

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.

A woman who is in touch with her sensuality subliminally empowers her man to prosper, flourish and truly live a happy life. She does not know it, but she is a huge catalyst to his fulfillment. But those who suppress their own sensuality whether consciously or unconsciously make it difficult for their men to find the motivation they need to succeed, and thus be fulfilled.

Beauty without elegance is a half beauty; elegance without beauty is still a full beauty!

Being a sensual woman gives you the Desirability Advantage; this simply means it essentially enhances your allure, elegance, and lusciousness.

Count Ayakura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to acknowledge the possibility of catastrophe. He felt that taking naps was much more beneficial than confronting catastrophes. However precipitous the future might seem, he learned from the game of kemari that the ball must always come down. There was no call for consternation. Grief and rage, along with other outbursts of passion, were mistakes easily committed by a mind lacking in refinement. And the Count was certainly not a man who lacked refinement. Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura’s version of political theory.

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!

A woman’s elegance will charm you for days, her beauty will charm you for weeks, her grace will charm you for years, and her virtue will charm you for a lifetime.

Die eitelste Mondaine verwendet auf ihre Gesamttoilette nicht so viel Zeit wie der Legionär zur »astiquage« seines Patronengürtels!

Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there.

Elegance and kindness is an elegant and kind reply to the rudeness of this world!