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Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. -- Coco Chanel
Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal. -- Diana Vreeland
Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read. -- Carolina Herrera
Elegance is refusal. -- Coco Chanel
Elegance is inferior to virtue. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Elegance is the only beauty that never fades. -- Audrey Hepburn
Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring. -- Carmel Snow
Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing. -- Jean Paul Gaultier
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance. -- Jean Genet
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. -- Albert Einstein
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it. -- Diana Vreeland
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement. -- Abba Eban
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
Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be. -- Paulo Coelho
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
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
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
Elegance is elimination. -- Cristobal Balenciaga
Elegance is exquisite polish. -- Suzanne Curchod
Elegance thrives on exclusion. -- Mason Cooley
Elegance is inferior to virtue. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Elegance is a discipline of life. -- Oscar de la Renta
Elegance and beauty have been banished. -- Yves Saint Laurent
Elegance is always in style for men. -- Donatella Versace
Elegance has nothing to do with fashion. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man. -- Seneca the Younger
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed. -- Jean Cocteau
Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution. -- Louisa May Alcott
Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered. -- Giorgio Armani
Elegance is the balance between PROPORTION, EMOTION & SURPRISE. -- Valentino Garavani
Simplicity = Beauty (how things look) + Elegance (how things work) -- blankdesk.com
Elegance doesn't mean being noticed, it means being remembered -- Giorgio Armani
Throw out and keep throwing out. Elegance means elimination. -- Jean-Michel Frank
Elegance is not being noticed, it's about being remembered. -- Giorgio Armani
Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer. -- Philip Treacy
Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside. -- Coco Chanel
Elegance is not about being noticed, its about being remembered. -- Giorgio Armani
Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun. -- Yves Saint Laurent
Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out. -- Coco Chanel
Elegance does not catch the eye. It stays in memory. -- Giorgio Armani
Elegance is not to be noticed, but to be remembered. -- Giorgio Armani
Elegance is not catching somebody's eyes, it's staying in somebody's memory -- Giorgio Armani
Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense. -- Lord Chesterfield
Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside. -- Coco Chanel
Elegance is innate...individual...eternal...it stands the test of time! -- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production. -- Philippe Starck
Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine. -- Girolamo Savonarola
Fashion is an expression of the times. Elegance is something else again. -- Horst P. Horst
Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant. -- Paulo Coelho
Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way. -- Edoardo Ponti
Elegance in objects is everybody's right, and it shouldn't cost more than ugliness. -- Paola Antonelli
Elegance and smartness is the sexiest thing woman can have, not just the flesh -- Baris Gencel
Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence. -- Elie Saab
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. -- Edsger Dijkstra
As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price. -- John Lewis Gaddis
Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn't have it naked, she'll never it clothed. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others. -- Paulo Coelho
Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become. -- Zac Posen
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Elegance and comfort are not incompatible, and whoever maintains the contrary simply doesn't know what he's talking about -- Salvatore Ferragamo
I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic. -- Nate Lowman
It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed. -- Jean Cocteau
Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension. -- Christian Dior
Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt. -- Donatella Versace
That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people. - The Elegance of the Hedgehog -- Muriel Barbery
Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness. You are not fearful of dark corners... -- Chogyam Trungpa
I had to cut a lot of things I wanted to keep [in The Art of Elegance]. I'm going to have to do a part two for sure. -- Kristin Chenoweth
Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate. -- William Hazlitt
Elegance; it lacks the intellect -he is not a dancer who dances to the beat of love - on the other hand, the heart, can not solve mathematical problems. -- sir kristian goldmund aumann
Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order, proportion, balance - is in Egypt. -- Camille Paglia
Fashion design is so diverse. It does not have clear identities as before with Balenciaga, Chanel, Cardin, Courreges. Design is about being recognised without a label. Elegance alone is not sufficient, -- Pierre Cardin
Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which.... -- William Butler Yeats
You go in and record and sing them some and you go back in and rerecord and sing them some more. That's kind of how I did this album [The Art of Elegance]. -- Kristin Chenoweth
Elegance is like manners. You canâ??t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then itâ??s another matter. -- Aldo Gucci
You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you cross your legs, not the label or the newest clothes from the latest collection. -- Carine Roitfeld
Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't. -- William S. Burroughs
As far as what made it on there [The Art of Elegance record], it was tough. It's probably one or two songs too long, but I just couldn't (cut any more). That's what I ended up with. I'm really proud of it. -- Kristin Chenoweth
I have found my star. She is beauty and grace. Elegance and goodness. My laughter in winter. She is courageous and strong. Bold and tempting. Unlike any other in all the universe, and I cannot touch her. I dare not even try." [Zarek] -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. -- William P. Alford
Elegance is necessarily unnatural, only achieveable at great expense. If you just do something, it won't be elegant, but if you do it and then see what might be more elegant, and do it again, you might, after an unknown number of iterations, get something that is very elegant. -- Erik Naggum
What is elegance? Soap and water! -- Cecil Beaton
I am from the planet of elegance. -- Ron Carter
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. -- Yves Saint Laurent
Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing? -- Yves Saint Laurent
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. -- Robert Fitzgerald
True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind. -- Isabella Rossellini
In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision. -- Lionel Messi
The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance. -- Sylvia Kristel
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. -- Benjamin Disraeli
What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration? -- Henri Poincare
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. -- Coco Chanel
For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is. -- Christian Lacroix
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism. -- Christian Lacroix
I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function -- Donald A. Norman
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
Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant. -- Carolina Herrera
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
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
Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That's why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a nice restaurant and pay a little bit more. It's for the experience. -- Travis Kalanick
Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground. -- Paulo Coelho
If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance. -- Bruce Springsteen
Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it. -- Isabella Rossellini
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
Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements. -- Wynton Marsalis
I don't really believe in elegance. Ever since I first came to France many years ago to do the Chambre Syndicale course, I always felt I was somehow lacking, first of all being British - obviously a disaster! But I was also puzzled with this idea that you have to tie your Hermes scarf just right, or you can only wear black. -- Suzy Menkes
Acknowledge the elegance of simplicity. -- Giorgio Armani
Self-command is the main elegance. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is the only elegance. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Modesty is the highest elegance -- Coco Chanel
Death is the only real elegance. -- Zelda Fitzgerald
simplicity is the key of elegance -- Coco Chanel
He endearing elegance of female friendship. -- Samuel Johnson
Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety. -- Emile M. Cioran
Casual elegance is all about the mix. -- Charlotte Moss
The Saluki is a marvel of elegance. -- Vita Sackville-West
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. -- Mary Browne
She was temptation wrapped in casual elegance. -- Christine Feehan
Exactness of intention produces elegance of style. -- Nathan Milstein
Quality means conformance to requirements, not elegance. -- Phil Crosby

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