Elegance Quotes

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

Truth, Leave, Describe

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

Future, Taken, Possession

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Coco Chanel

Dress, Consist, Putting

Elegance is refusal.
Coco Chanel

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

Beauty, Wealth, Teach

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

Try, Pure, Remain

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.
Mark Hyman

Life, Beauty, Wrong

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

Nothing, Dressed, Refusal

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

Mind, Real, Rest

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
Yves Saint Laurent

Confuse, Snobbery

No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.
Dee Dee Myers

Family, Struggle, Forget

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
Bell Hooks

Art, Living, Grace

My fancy dress costume of choice is... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for ultimate dressing-up indulgence.
Ellie Goulding

Choice, Attention, Ultimate

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.'
Pete Townshend

Music, Society, Rock

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.
Julie Burchill

Down, Summer, Hands

What is elegance? Soap and water!
Cecil Beaton

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
Merry Browne

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

Beauty, Bad, Nothing

What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
Henri Poincare

Feeling, Indeed, Solution

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
Yves Saint Laurent

Forgetting, Wearing

The Winter Kate-House of Harlow 1960 customer is a multi-tasker, therefore it's important that they are able to put together an outfit with ease and elegance. Pieces that are easy to mix within their own wardrobe. Easy dressing while maintaining a well put together look.
Nicole Richie

Important, Together, Put

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.
Christian Louboutin

Women, Men, Happy

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
Clifford Geertz

Beauty, Thinking, Different

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

Success, Failure, Between

Elegance is inferior to virtue.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Virtue, Inferior

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

Bad, Achieve, Harmony

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.
Gary Ross

Love, Mean, Grace

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.
Lionel Messi

Nothing, Football, Mean

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.
Helena Christensen

Beauty, Respect, Desire

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

Education, Work, Good

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