Elegant Quotes

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self, Few, Wants

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Art, Once, Style

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Bertrand Russell

Happiness, Human, Hatred

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.
Helen Hayes

Good, Beautiful, Leaving

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings

Sense, Genius, Common

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Good, Person, Win

Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.
Adele

Sports, Body, Clothes

My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.
Robert Fulghum

Long, Night, Down

This is an elegant hotel! Room service has an unlisted number.
Henny Youngman

Service, Number, Room

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.
Vivienne Westwood

Possible, Touch, Femininity

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.
Mark Zuckerberg

Strong, Problems, Culture

When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.
Shirley MacLaine

Beautiful, Bad, Another

For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.
Carly Rae Jepsen

Nice, Definitely, Event

Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane.
Diablo Cody

Life, Real, Paper

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
Henry Fielding

Heart, Truly, Taste

Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.
Edward Witten

Work, Nature, Greatest

I wish I could be elegant.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Science, Problem, Means

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 our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
J. G. Ballard

Fear, Children, Tomorrow

The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.
Arthur Smith

Time, Different, Show

I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it, and Will Smith has been doing it in his own way.
Steven Cojocaru

Classy, Modern, Changing

My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man.
Michael Haneke

Good, Father, Bit

Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.
Steve Coogan

Crime, Victim, Phone

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.
Renee Fleming

Enjoy, Singing, Exposed

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.
Dustin Diamond

Honor, Days, Sword

Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way.
Todd English

Chicken, Turkey, Unlike

As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.
Maureen O'Hara

She, Lady, Hollywood

Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.
Wallace Shawn

Someone, Friend, May

My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
Bill Nighy

Dad, Personal, Quite

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