Quotes about elegance

If there are to be rules, they must be articulable and defensible, like etiquette. I do not do anything simply because my family did it. I do things because they make sense, and because they are elegant.

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

There is some kind of elegant gentleness to Paris that I don't quite understand yet.

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

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that the simplicity it displays has been hard won, that it flows from the resolution of demanding technical or natural predicament. Thus we call the Shaker staircase in Pleasant Hill elegant because we know--without ever having constructed one ourselves--that a staircase is a site complexity, and that combinations of treads, risers and banisters rarely approach the sober intelligibility of the

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.

Humility is the best dress you can wear

fabrics doesn't make exquisite dresses, it is the stitches.

The most pleasant and alluring curve on a woman is the smile

You must remember, Madame Harris, elegance is in the details.

... look treasured

Temujin watched Borte's ballet, her elegance on the fulcrum of her hips.

Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.

There has always been an elegance to the application of excellence.

Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent nature—a mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it.

The elegance of the moon teaches us to be elegant and kind.

Elegance and kindness is an elegant and kind reply to the rudeness of this world!

Though Julian could be marvelously kind in difficult circumstances of all sorts, I sometimes got the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture.

This is God's beauty!The Elegant nature of Esther,The Meek nature of Moses,The Pius nature of Paul,The Passionate nature of Peter,The Just nature of Jesus and thenThe wise nature of you!

It seems strange to me that mechanical progress always seems to leave the slower demands of elegance far behind.

Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age.

If you are a kind and a peaceful person, you will see yourself when you look at an elegant flower!

The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.

Elegance and smartness is the sexiest thing woman can have, not just the flesh

Count Ayakura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to acknowledge the possibility of catastrophe. He felt that taking naps was much more beneficial than confronting catastrophes. However precipitous the future might seem, he learned from the game of kemari that the ball must always come down. There was no call for consternation. Grief and rage, along with other outbursts of passion, were mistakes easily committed by a mind lacking in refinement. And the C

Elegance is a personality.

Size and elaboration were often mistaken for importance.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Theory is relevant to you because it shows you a new, simpler, and more elegant side of computers, which we normally consider to be complicated machines. The best computer designs and applications are conceived with elegance in mind. A theoretical course can heighten your aesthetic sense and help you build more beautiful systems.

I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I never appear in public with a soiled conscience, a tarnished honor, threadbare scruples, or an insult that I haven't washed away. I'm always immaculately clean, adorned with independence and frankness. I may not cut a stylish figure, but I hold my soul erect. I wear my deeds as ribbons, my wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs

Elegance is timeless

The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presence, yet lost the sense of when he was not with her. Its expression was now so vivid that for the first time he seemed to see before him the real Lily Bart, divested of all the trivialities of her little world, and catching for a moment a note of that eternal harmony of whichher beauty was a part.

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

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon it only shines because the sun is there.

Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.

It's not very easy to grow up into a woman. We are always taught, almost bombarded, with ideals of what we should be at every age in our lives: "This is what you should wear at age twenty", "That is what you must act like at age twenty-five", "This is what you should be doing when you are seventeen." But amidst all the many voices that bark all these orders and set all of these ideals for girls today, there lacks the voice of assurance. There is no comfort and assurance. I want to be able to say

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

The black color is much deeper than to be overwhelmed by grief… Black hides everything within itself in the argument of elegance.

wear your treasure and you will be Treasured

The elegance under pressure is the result of fearlessness.

When efforts that are wisely executed, the situation and condition don't affect the performance.

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it’s up to you.

What is GRACE? an individual, inspiring and virtuous impulse, that streams the spirit with life! An elegance and divinity of one's beauty!

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

Today, young girls measure the quality of their beauty based upon its entertainment value. The more people are entertained by their beauty, the more beautiful they think they must be. This is very unfortunate and I would like young girls to know that their beauty is a crown; not a clown. And crowns are best worn with elegance and serenity.

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I have a renewed commitment to elegance, she said, in case you think I'm just spending money for the fun of it.

He does not need to be an emperor, but a prince.If he has enough charm or elegance to convince.

Elegance; it lacks the intellect -he is not a dancer who dances to the beat of love - on the other hand, the heart, can not solve mathematical problems.

Natural elegance inspires the mind.

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.