Elegance Quotes - Page 12

• Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

  Aristotle

  Beauty, People, May

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• The noble entitlement bespeaks an élan, a certain type of relationship with your partner. It means formidable technique not displayed lightly. The excitement comes from elegance.

  Kevin McKenzie

  Mean, Ballet, Technique

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• Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?

  Stephen Dunn

  Moments, Curious

  Stephen Dunn (1999). “Riffs and Reciprocities: Prose Pairs”, p.44, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down.

  Julie Burchill

  Summer, Hands, Mixtures

  Julie Burchill, Daniel Raven (2007). “Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea”, Virgin Books Limited

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• come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain

  W. S. Merwin

  Rain, Silence, Shade

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• I wanted to give young girls something positive to look up to…I wanted to give them their Blizzard of Aahhhs, Ski Movie or High Life, but done in a way that also shows the elegance, grace, community and style that is unique to women in the mountains.

  Lynsey Dyer

  Girl, Unique, Giving

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

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photographer, Enjoy, Seeing

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• I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.

  Meg Ryan

  Broken, House, Might

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• For we have come by different ways to this place... I can tell by the natural ease with which you wear fine clothes and the way your mouth moves when you speak with waiters in good restaurants. You have come the way of castles and cathedrals, of elegance and empire.

  Robert James Waller

  Karma, Moving, Clothes

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• The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs

  William James

  Truth, Air, Objectivity

  William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.199, Penguin

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• I have some favorites. 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.

  Gary Ross

  Mean, Thinking, Grace

  Source: collider.com

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• Every age probably regards itself as unique in its sexual sophistication, and if we take Ovid as a typical spokesman we should have to conclude that the keynote of his age was elegance. . . . Ovid could not possibly have taken himself, nor be taken for, an Ancient.

  Rolfe Humphries

  Taken, Unique, Should Have

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• From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which it included.

  Heinrich Hertz

  Abundance, Theory, Relation

  Heinrich Hertz (1893). “Electric Waves: Being Researches on the Propagation of Electric Action with Finite Velocity Through Space”

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• A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope.

  David Hume

  Writing, Tables, London

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.634, Delphi Classics

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• If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such manner as that we could, at leisure, and critically inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman, and no lady; for, although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage, in the particulars, we should detect offence. Because, elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Blood, Europe, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1476, Delphi Classics

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• I think that when you're taking pictures with my principles, you can try anything. Dare to do a lot of things - dare with sexuality, dare to break taboos as long as it remains photogenic. As long as I find an elegance and beauty in it, I am not afraid to tackle anything.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Thinking, Long, Trying

  Interview with Karl Lagerfeld, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 18, 2011.

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• The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent.

  Edward Norton

  Lazy, Alternatives, Moments

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• Cate Blanchett is mesmerizing. I don't know why. It's beyond my understanding. Why we all want to work with her is she elevates the rest of us. She's just got some ethereal grace and elegance that's beyond me, and an acute understanding of human nature. She's just exquisite. She's otherworldly.

  Brad Pitt

  Grace, Understanding, Want

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• Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut feeling is that on the inside, she has the same simple refinement as the hedgehog: a deceptively indolent little creature, fiercely solitary--and terrible elegant.

  Muriel Barbery

  Real, Simple, Feelings

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• 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.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Beautiful, Interesting, Style

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• I felt Michael Jackson was inspired a little bit more from the elegance of a Fred Astaire. Michael loved Sammy Davis, Jr. and James Brown and Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. But he wasn't any of those people. To be inspired is one thing, but he made it all his own.

  Kenny Ortega

  People, Littles, Inspired

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• These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and thinking.... Contrary to what many thoughtless people seem to believe, dandyism is not even an excessive delight in clothes and material elegance. For the perfect dandy, these things are no more than the symbol of the aristocratic superiority of his mind.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Believe, Passion, Thinking

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• Experimental music scores are enigmatic, opaque, demanding, irritating, humorous, childlike; the best, like Cardew's Treatise, are also inspiring, giving rise, on occasion, to a music of vitality, intelligence and elegance.

  John Tilbury

  Humorous, Giving, Vitality

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• I had to cut a lot of things I wanted to keep [in The Art of Elegance]. I'm going to have to do a part two for sure.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Art, Cutting, Two

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• I think there's a kind of elegance to it, to work within that framework where what you don't see is often more enticing.

  Matthew Weiner

  Thinking, Kind, Enticing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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