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• Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn't have it naked, she'll never it clothed.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Style, Quality, Naked

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• Elegance is elimination.

  Cristobal Balenciaga

  Fashion, Clothes, Style

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

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Taken, Luxury

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• Knowledge is the only elegance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Philosophy, Knowledge

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.146, University of Georgia Press

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• Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

  Coco Chanel

  Girly, Women, Luxury

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Simplicity

  "A Plea for the Queen's English? RU joking?" by Dan Cook, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2010.

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• 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.

  Edmond Rostand

  Cutting, Men, Ideas

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• Grooming is the secret of real elegance. The best clothes, the most wonderful jewels, the most glamorous beauty don't count without good grooming.

  Christian Dior

  Real, Jewels, Clothes

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• 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.

  Paulo Coelho

  Beautiful, Simplicity, Sober

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• Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perception, Birth, Manners

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

  Jean Cocteau

  Invisibility, Provision, Seems

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• A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

  Tennessee Williams

  Life, Reality, Grace

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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

  Vivienne Westwood

  Women, Femininity, Elegant

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• I wear perfume even when I’m alone

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Perfume

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• Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Being Happy, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Рипол Классик

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• 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.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Hard Work, Reality, Appreciate

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• Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.

  Christian Louboutin

  Character, Men, Shoes

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

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Congratulations, Luxury, Success And Failure

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• The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Appreciate, Ingredients, Steps

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• Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Cities, Chicago, Strange

  Claes Oldenburg (1969). “Proposals for monuments and buildings, 1965-69”

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Magnificence, Splendor, Wealth

  Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “The young duke. Count Alarcos”

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• Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Drawing, Rooms, Want

  Julia Ward Howe (1880). “Modern Society”

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• Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

  Craig Reucassel

  Ideas, Bad Ideas

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• I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.

  Rita Hayworth

  Thinking, Clothes, Certain

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Hygiene, Differences, Quality

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