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

Diana Vreeland

~ To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony. ~

William Ellery Channing 1780

~ Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus. ~

John Fowles

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

Christian Lacroix

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

Marcel Proust

~ The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. ~

Merry Browne

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

Jean Genet

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

Samuel Johnson

~ Knowledge is the only elegance. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man. ~

Seneca

~ Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance. ~

Jon Franklin

~ What dreadful hot weather we have!† It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance ~

Jane Austen

~ What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. ~

Jane Austen

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

Sylvia Kristel

~ If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. ~

Albert Einstein

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

Diana Vreeland

~ The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. ~

Merry Browne

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Jean Genet

~ Elegance is inferior to virtue. ~

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

Edsger Dijkstra

~ Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea. ~

Craig Bruce

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

Robert Fitzgerald

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

Sylvia Kristel

~ Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind. ~

Oleg Lolewski Cassini

~ Knowledge is the only elegance. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man. ~

Seneca

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

Samuel Johnson

~ Self-command is the main elegance. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance. ~

Jon Franklin

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