Elegance Quotes
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Elegance. It's an attitude. A frame of mind. An intuition, a refusal, a rigor, a research, a knowledge. The attitude of elegance is also a way of behaving.
Jacqueline de Ribes -
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
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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 -
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
Henry Ward Beecher -
The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring.
Carmel Snow -
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 -
Modesty is the highest elegance.
Coco Chanel
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Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Coco Chanel -
Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn't have it naked, she'll never it clothed.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.
Coco Chanel -
No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory.
Coco Chanel -
I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.
Rita Hayworth -
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
Jane Austen
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Experimental music scores are enigmatic, opaque, demanding, irritating, humorous, childlike; the best, like Cardew's Treatise, are also inspiring, giving rise, on occasion, to a music of vitality, intelligence and elegance.
John Tilbury AMM -
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
Petrarch -
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
Coco Chanel -
We have a direct contact with our clothes; they're like a little house. You have to feel good and at home in what you wear and. I think that's elegance. Chanel said something like: "When a woman is badly dressed, one sees the dress, and when she is well dressed, one sees the woman." That's what I'm talking about.
Christophe Lemaitre -
The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.
Vita Sackville-West -
Simplicity is the key of elegance.
Coco Chanel
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True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease.
Coco Chanel -
My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you're beauty and elegance.
Rod Stewart -
Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.
Benno C. Schmidt Jr. -
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