Elegance Quotations

It's unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who's wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you're looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.

I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.

I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.

I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.

Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.

I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesnt date.

Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

I learned how to deal with people with elegance from Patrick Swayze.

I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

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.

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.

What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?

I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence.

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 fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.

I think elegance is always going to be there.

The word "elegance" is a bit different now.

Do you know what elegance is? It is not only what you're wearing. It is how you wear it. who you are inside.

Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.

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?

In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

We hope to create a unique live/work/play environment that complements the elegance of the Somerset Collection.

There is a look and a grace and an elegance and a power that goes with diving, ... You can find power in a lot of kids and grace in some kids. But to find grace, power and beauty in the air is so very rare. Coaches from all across the country take one look at her and say, 'Oh, my god.'

Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence.

Elegance is innate...individual...eternal...it stands the test of time!

Lou Rawls was one of the music world's most versatile vocalists, covering gospel, R&B, soul, jazz, blues and pop. A three-time Grammy Award winner, his deep, smooth, soulful style exemplified his classy elegance and made him one of the most recognizable voices anywhere. And his philanthropic efforts on behalf of many charitable causes further displayed his passion and commitment to helping others through music. We have lost a true musical pioneer, but his legacy will continue to inspire us all.

She was following in the tradition of the first lady displaying this kind of elegance as a statement about the power of the presidency.

No, no, no, no, no! He's totally not got the suave elegance that Bond needs - and as for making Bond

Id like to work for the International Gymnastics Federation. These competitions have shown the sport needs a lot of changes. It should be judged primarily on grace, elegance and beauty rather than simply on mechanic tumbling.

Built in 1763, it is the oldest surviving synagogue in North America. Still in use, the building combines an intimate elegance with Classical grandeur in the best tradition of Georgian architecture. It is also a National Landmark, the highest designation given to an American building.

B.B. has a very specific kind of style, very lyrical. He doesn't play a lot of notes. In a slow blues arrangement, you can really hear the kind of elegance of his playing. He's not down and dirty.

His style of playing, particularly in his early years, was a stunning patrician elegance with a very natural musical line which fitted the style of whatever composition.

We are on the threshold of a new American elegance thanks to Mrs. Kennedy's beauty, naturalness, understatement, exposure and symbolism.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Elegance is always in style for men.

Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.

Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.

Elegance is elimination.

I am very seldom interested in applications. I am more interested in the elegance of a problem. Is it a good problem, an interesting problem?

Sake is served best slightly chilled, at 56-58 degrees. When you heat it, you take away the elegance and beauty that generations of families have used to produce it. It's like a really good cognac. It takes years to produce it. There's great romance to it, but more importantly, I love the flavor profile of it. It's complex in its simplicity. When you taste them all lined up, you really begin to understand. You're opening your eyes to a whole new world, and I'm looking forward to doing it in Vail.

Real life in Paris, the waiting-for-a-bus kind of existence that goes on without ever crossing the tracks to the city's elegance and worldly ambitions, moves on its own, without manifestoes or injunctions to stop it.

Adrienne's talent and creative sense of proportion and elegance sets her apart from others. She did it once in fashion and now she's doing it in home design.

At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the people who do it. The extraordinary aesthetic of the natural world is not obvious to someone who never leaves the inner city. Appreciation of the elegance and power of physical law is an acquired taste.

The Nokia 8800 has clearly found an audience with individuals who appreciate quality materials and world-class design. The Nokia 8800 is as much an object of art and desire, as it is an advanced piece of technology. As the first mobile phone to be crafted of modern materials like stainless steel and mineral glass, the Nokia 8800 brings a new elegance to the art of personal communication.

The Bill Blass name is instantly recognizable around the world for design, classic elegance and high quality. We are proud to expand our relationship with Bill Blass to include these two new footwear lines. These Bill Blass lines will enable The Fashion House to further broaden our portfolio of products and deepen our penetration into key sales channels.

As you look at these powerful images, you see there is something very dignified about this woman. Warhol was very into the elegance rather than the tragedy of Jackie Kennedy. These images are about sorrow, loss and mourning.

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.

True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind.

I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.

She was temptation wrapped in casual elegance.

It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life.

For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.

Individuality will always be one of the conditions of real elegance

Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show.

Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing.

I couldn't define my style; that's impossible. I like comfort and elegance with a bit of glamour thrown in. If I like something, I'll wear it for years.

Elegance is not being noticed, it's about being remembered.

Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered.

Elegance is not to be noticed, but to be remembered.

Elegance is not about being noticed, its about being remembered.

Acknowledge the elegance of simplicity.

Elegance doesn’t mean being noticed, it means being remembered

Elegance is not catching somebody's eyes, it's staying in somebody's memory

Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

Elegance thrives on exclusion.

Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.

It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.

There's this British elegance that we, at times, have really missed in the States. We've always been more of a sportswear culture.

Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct.

The elegance of Phoenix is its unprecedented ability to 'follow the modern water cycle' at the surface of Mars by investigating the geochemical signatures of water ice and the polar water transport story in the atmosphere.

Elegance is a discipline of life.

Fashion anticipates ... elegance is a state of mind.

Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.

A modern arboretum brings us that ancient forest and, with it, a changed apprehension of time, a renewed appreciation of the elegance of natural form and a renewed sense of wonder at the variety of the world we inhabit.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.

Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.

Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.

Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.

Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus... . We must demand, at least, intention.

Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness.

Everywhere, I'm looking to reach elegance and intelligence.

Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.

Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.