Elegance Quotes
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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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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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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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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
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Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?
Stephen Dunn
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Elegance is refusal.
Coco Chanel
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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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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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The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.
Sylvia Kristel
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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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Exactness of intention produces elegance of style.
Nathan Milstein
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My background may be common, but I have specialized in elegance.
Cyril Ritchard
