True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.
Emil Cioran
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
Diana Vreeland
For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.
Christian Lacroix
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
Self-command is the main elegance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is the only elegance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety
Samuel Johnson
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
Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.
Sylvia Kristel
It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.
Samuel Johnson
Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.
Seneca