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Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
Patricia Highsmith

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

The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.
Kate Mulgrew

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
Merry Browne

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

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

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
Edsger Dijkstra

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

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

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
Yves Saint Laurent


What is elegance? Soap and water!
Cecil Beaton

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

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

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