Elegance Quotes
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




Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.
Craig Bruce




Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
Edsger Dijkstra




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




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




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




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




Knowledge is the only elegance.




Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.




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




Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance.
Jon Franklin




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.




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.




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




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




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




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




Elegance is inferior to virtue.




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




Self-command is the main elegance.




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




Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.




A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.




The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
Merry Browne







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