Elegance Quotes
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No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory.
Coco Chanel
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The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.
Vita Sackville-West
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Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
Coco Chanel
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Simplicity is the key of elegance.
Coco Chanel
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If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
Marcel Proust
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Elegance is refusal.
Coco Chanel
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Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.
Aristotle
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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
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Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?
Stephen Dunn
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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.
William Hazlitt
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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.
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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.
William Hazlitt
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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
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Exactness of intention produces elegance of style.
Nathan Milstein
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It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.
Cesar Romero
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I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.
Heather Graham
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The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.
Sylvia Kristel
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True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind.
Isabella Rossellini
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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?
Zicheng Hong
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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.
William Butler Yeats
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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
Terence McKenna
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It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.
Nick Bantock
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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.
William Cowper
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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?
Charles Gounod