Words matter. These are the best Elegance Quotes from famous people such as Heather Graham, Yves Saint Laurent, Travis Kalanick, Christian Louboutin, John McEnroe, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I’d rather have fun.
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That’s why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a nice restaurant and pay a little bit more. It’s for the experience.
Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth; they are not playing with the inner character.
There’s a certain beauty and majesty to Wimbledon. The elegance, the way the grass looks on TV.
Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That’s why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a nice restaurant and pay a little bit more. It’s for the experience.
I’m quite into the French way – simple elegance with just a suggestion of sexiness, nothing vulgar.
I wanted to have a band that could rock as hard as the Who and sing like the Beatles and the Beach Boys; a band that could play concise, three-and-a-half minute songs with power and elegance.
Milan is marvellous, picturesque, and full of elegance.
Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories – these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
The elegance and the quality – the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn’t make any difference to me.
Dorothy B. Hughes – there’s a robust elegance to her writing that I keep responding to again and again. I’ve read her novel ‘In a Lonely Place’ about eight or nine times.
Style should breathe elegance.
Elegance isn’t solely defined by what you wear. It’s how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.
Jasmine, the name of which signifies fragrance, is the emblem of delicacy and elegance. It is reared with difficulty in New England, but at the South, puts forth all its graces.
I Am She is an institution that reflects and personifies the grace, charm, and elegance of an Indian woman.
The elegance and the quality – the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn’t make any difference to me.
The zenith of elegance in any woman’s wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.
The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.
What I love about French gardens is the combination of formal elegance and intellectual questioning.
Poker isn’t the roulette wheel of pure chance, nor is it the chess of mathematical elegance and perfect information. Apart from the underlying mathematics, poker depends on the nuanced reading of human intention, interactions, and deceptions.
In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.
No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama’s story. But since the Inauguration, we’ve seen only the president’s present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.
Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
I connect fashion to other peoples’ elegance, but not my own. I don’t think I’ve ever felt elegant. I’ve felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant – I prefer it – but I can’t do it myself. I honestly think it’s some form of autistic disorder.
On the videos for ‘1234’ and ‘My Moon My Man’ I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I’m not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.
My mother and grandmother… they were my first muses. The way they dressed and carried themselves was an education in elegance. They defined the word.
I don’t like women who follow fashion in the sense of becoming victims of it. I like women who have elegance, who have allure, who use fashion, rather than the other way around.
Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It’s about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that’s what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
You must, if it’s possible, be born with a kind of elegance. It’s part of you, of yourself.
It’s stupid to say that there’s any comfort to be had in ‘knowing your place,’ but there is a sense of reassuring escapism to something like ‘Downton Abbey.’ There’s a perceived romance and elegance that is wonderful to lose yourself in.
I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called ‘rock and roll.’
I have always admired stylishly confident women who dress with great authority. This lifelong love of elegance began with the humble wardrobe of my late grandmother Mrs. Bennie Frances Davis.
I have so many ways I can explain the ballroom scene. But the essence of the ballroom scene would be elegance, extravagance, and fabulousness to its 100 per cent. It’s a place where you can be whoever you want to be inside of already being who you are.
The Stockholm street style is distinctive, with ensembles that exemplify the city’s understated elegance.
The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.
Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories – these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
I myself used to do absurd things. Yes, I mean that. I had to have a laugh, and some of the things were absurd. But they could always be worn by an elegant woman; they did not negate her elegance.
It’s a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.
The Stockholm street style is distinctive, with ensembles that exemplify the city’s understated elegance.
The 50s are the age of elegance. That’s kind of my intention when I get dressed: casual elegance.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.
Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.
When I work a nightclub, I dress up in evening wear. There’s a certain elegance to it all and I like that.
There’s a certain beauty and majesty to Wimbledon. The elegance, the way the grass looks on TV.
The Winter Kate-House of Harlow 1960 customer is a multi-tasker, therefore it’s important that they are able to put together an outfit with ease and elegance. Pieces that are easy to mix within their own wardrobe. Easy dressing while maintaining a well put together look.
Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe and Anna Magnani – women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn’t submit to any standard of beauty – they defined it.
What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
Having my film premiere in Cannes has always been the ultimate dream for me. It is a combination of the elegance of the festival, the setting and the quality of films that premiere there.
What I love about French gardens is the combination of formal elegance and intellectual questioning.
My mom has always just been one of those people who handle adversity and challenges, and really everything, with so much grace and elegance. I saw it all the time.
Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler?
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted Valentino to design my wedding dress. Valentino is the definition of timeless elegance. I don’t think there’s another couture house like it.
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