Elegance Quotes
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What is elegance? Soap and water!
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Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.
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Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.
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Casual elegance is all about the mix.
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It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.
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Elegance is refusal.
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Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out.
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Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
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Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.
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Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.
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Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?
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And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind, Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.
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Exactness of intention produces elegance of style.
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Go, mark the matchless working of the power That shuts within the seed the future flower; Bids these in elegance of form excel. In color these, and those delight the smell; Sends nature forth, the daughter of the skies, To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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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.
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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.
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My background may be common, but I have specialized in elegance.
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If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
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It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.
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Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?
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If a poor house is well kept, or a poor girl well groomed, there is elegance if not beauty. If good people should come upon hard times, why should they immediately give up on themselves?
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The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.
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True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind.
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Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet
