Elegance Quotes
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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. -
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
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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 -
Casual elegance is all about the mix.
Charlotte Moss -
It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.
Cesar Romero -
Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out.
Coco Chanel -
Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.
Audrey Hepburn -
Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.
Coco Chanel
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Exactness of intention produces elegance of style.
Nathan Milstein -
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 -
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 -
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
Coco Chanel -
Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?
Stephen Dunn -
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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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 -
My background may be common, but I have specialized in elegance.
Cyril Ritchard -
It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.
Nick Bantock -
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 -
If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
Marcel Proust -
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
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A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material, and purpose. Within this definition there can be no vain ornamentation or superfluity, but the part of beauty is nonetheless great-in ideal choice of material, in visual refinement, and in the rational elegance of things intended for use.
Eliot Noyes -
The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.
Sylvia Kristel -
I love unique things that not everyone has. I believe its all about how you wear an outfit, not how much it costs or where it's from. Elegance is the key.
Sasha Jackson -
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