Best 197 quotes in «elegance quotes» category

French elegance lies in the balance of romance and restraint.

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which it included.

He endearing elegance of female friendship.

For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance

I am from the planet of elegance.

I am very seldom interested in applications. I am more interested in the elegance of a problem. Is it a good problem, an interesting problem?

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.

I have a simple taste, only the best.

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.'

I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down.

I have some favorites. I love Chaplin; I mean I really love Chaplin. I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

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

Individuality will always be one of the conditions of real elegance

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

I read once that elegance is a privilege of age. I thought, that's so true. You get more comfortable with yourself as you get older.

In general I don't like definitions, but 'Minimalist' is a term that means elegance and openness, so I would prefer to be called a Minimalist than something else.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Modesty is the highest elegance

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

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.

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

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

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

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

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

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

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

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.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

Quality means conformance to requirements, not elegance.

Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.

She was temptation wrapped in casual elegance.

Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

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.