Elegance Quotes

I love to wear my own Jade Jagger ball gowns. I love their timeless elegance, of course with my own jewelry.

Jade Jagger

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

Edsger Dijkstra

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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.

Natalie Dormer

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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Abba Eban

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There is no such thing as a natural fit between form and content. Seamless elegance would be tantamount to erasure.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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Elegance is inferior to virtue.

Mary Shelley

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

Diana Vreeland

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In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

Christian Lacroix

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The Stockholm street style is distinctive, with ensembles that exemplify the city's understated elegance.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

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The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.

Paul Washer

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

Lionel Messi

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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

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My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

William Bartram

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True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind.

Isabella Rossellini

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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

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I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.

Nate Lowman

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Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.

Edoardo Ponti

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A modern arboretum brings us that ancient forest and, with it, a changed apprehension of time, a renewed appreciation of the elegance of natural form and a renewed sense of wonder at the variety of the world we inhabit.

John Burnside

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About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

Sidney Altman

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I'm quite into the French way - simple elegance with just a suggestion of sexiness, nothing vulgar.

Michelle Dockery

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I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant - I prefer it - but I can't do it myself. I honestly think it's some form of autistic disorder.

Douglas Coupland

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Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth; they are not playing with the inner character.

Christian Louboutin

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I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.

Alice Temperley

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Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

Paulo Coelho

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