Elegance Quotes

“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
― E.F. Schumacher

“You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“It's not very easy to grow up into a woman. We are always taught, almost bombarded, with ideals of what we should be at every age in our lives: "This is what you should wear at age twenty", "That is what you must act like at age twenty-five", "This is what you should be doing when you are seventeen." But amidst all the many voices that bark all these orders and set all of these ideals for girls today, there lacks the voice of assurance. There is no comfort and assurance. I want to be able to say, that there are four things admirable for a woman to be, at any age! Whether you are four or forty-four or nineteen! It's always wonderful to be elegant, it's always fashionable to have grace, it's always glamorous to be brave, and it's always important to own a delectable perfume! Yes, wearing a beautiful fragrance is in style at any age!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.”
― Salvador Dali, The Secret Life Of Salvador Dali

“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.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it’s up to you.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Favorite Poems

“I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I never appear in public with a soiled conscience, a tarnished honor, threadbare scruples, or an insult that I haven't washed away. I'm always immaculately clean, adorned with independence and frankness. I may not cut a stylish figure, but I hold my soul erect. I wear my deeds as ribbons, my wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.”
― Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

“I have a renewed commitment to elegance, she said, in case you think I'm just spending money for the fun of it. ”
― Brian Andreas

“The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“The elegance under pressure is the result of fearlessness.”
― Ashish Patel

“Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“There has always been an elegance to the application of excellence.”
― Richard Diaz

“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.”
― C. A. R. Hoare

“Today, young girls measure the quality of their beauty based upon its entertainment value. The more people are entertained by their beauty, the more beautiful they think they must be. This is very unfortunate and I would like young girls to know that their beauty is a crown; not a clown. And crowns are best worn with elegance and serenity.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“et iam nox umida caelo praecipitat suadentque cadentia sidera somnos”
― Vergil, The Aeneid

“If there are to be rules, they must be articulable and defensible, like etiquette. I do not do anything simply because my family did it. I do things because they make sense, and because they are elegant.”
― Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

“The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.”
― George Pólya, Mathematical Discovery on Understanding, Learning, and Teaching Problem Solving, Volume I

“- 'Poise is perfect balance, an equanimity of body and mind, complete composure whatever the social scene. Elegant dress, immaculate grooming, and perfect deportment all contribute to the attainment of self-confidence.' -”
― Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means

“In simplicity lies the elegance of true beauty.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“A lady knows whether she has the figure to wear tight clothing. She knows that just because an item of clothing comes in her size does not mean she should wear it.”
― Candace Simpson-Giles, How to Be a Lady: A Contemporary Guide to Common Courtesy

“He could see Cannes shimmering in the distance, like a mirage it haunted him. A mirage, so nearby yet so far out of reach, a mirage of light and elegance, a mirage of fame and excess, a place where modern mythologies came to life, if only temporarily.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Dying in Champoussin

“In Europe, every journey is a journey through time, where the past and present dance in harmonious elegance.”
― Ferdinand Jayvee Gomez Gomez, Easy Money

“Have you prepared a candlelit table for dinner in a forest where twilight reigns? Some may call this dazzling table, elegantly lit, a fantasy or a madness, but you call it the magnificent touch of artistic mind to life!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“آن عطر خاص ملایم را به یاد می آورم که هنوز هم وقتی جعبه ای قدیمی از لباس های مادرم را باز می کنم، من را احاطه می کند. دست های لطیف او و آغوش قدرتمندش را به یاد می آورم که می گفتند او چقدر عمیق عشق می ورزید. موهای بلندش را به یاد می آورم، پاهای برهنه ی او را که در کودکی ام زمانی که آرایش می کرد، نوازش می کردم. هر بار که به شام و مهمانی نوشیدنی دعوت می شد، می گفت :(( آه، اگر می توانستم خانه بمانم و در آشپزخانه با تو غذا بخورم.))”
― Sean Hepburn Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit

“I don't consider elegance and extravagance to be the same element.”
― Karah Khalia

“Brilliant minds, though brimming with feeling, often remain silent — not from coldness, but out of sheer elegance.”
― Paulo Ricardo Zargolin