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• Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and with what eventually one of her mentors described as an almost alarming speed; she was like a dancer, he said, out in the cosmos springing weightlessly from star to star. Drones, merely brilliant, crawled along behind with laborious proofs that supported her assertions.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Stars, Dancer, Intuition

  Deborah Eisenberg (2016). “Twilight of the Superheroes”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

  Giorgio Armani

  Fashion, Use, Way

  Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Prejudice, Kind

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.97

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• We have a direct contact with our clothes; they're like a little house. You have to feel good and at home in what you wear and. I think that's elegance. Chanel said something like: "When a woman is badly dressed, one sees the dress, and when she is well dressed, one sees the woman." That's what I'm talking about.

  Christophe Lemaitre

  Home, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.

  Edmund Burke

  Mean, Evil, Vices

  Edmund Burke (1841). “Works”, p.484

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• 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.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Quality, Moral, Common

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• A man who relentlessly perspires
  to be excellent evidently inspires
  many with his intelligence and
  elegance.

  Anuj

  Men, Inspire, Excellent

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

  Donna Tartt

  Hands, Style, Storytelling

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• Casual elegance is all about the mix.

  Charlotte Moss

  Casual

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• 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.

  Agatha Christie

  Imagination, Too Much, Masters

  Agatha Christie (2009). “The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.130, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect.

  Mary McCarthy

  Simplicity, Tourists, Lines

  Mary McCarthy (1959). “The stones of Florence”

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

  Paola Antonelli

  Cost, Objects, Ugliness

  "The Shape of Things to Come" by Ian Parker, www.newyorker.com. February 23 & March 2, 2015.

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• All the great artists of the world slowly slowly start growing a quality of feminineness, grace, elegance, exquisiteness. A certain flavor of softness, relaxedness, calmness and quietness surrounds them. They are no longer feverish. What I am teaching here is really to turn the whole world feminine.

  Rajneesh

  Teaching, Artist, Grace

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• Men expect too much, do too little,
  Put the contraption before the accomplishment,
  Lack skill of the interior mind
  To fashion dignity with shapes of air.
  Luxury, yes but not elegance!

  Allen Tate

  Fashion, Men, Skills

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.86, Macmillan

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• My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Achievement, Definitions, Clarity

  "Computers, Ethics & Social Values". Book edited by Deborah G. Johnson and Helen Fay Nissenbaum, 1995.

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• Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity.

  Gordon Willis

  People, Simplicity, Complexity

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• I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

  H. R. Giger

  Art, Curves, Lines

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• French elegance lies in the balance of romance and restraint.

  Sarah Turnbull

  Lying, Romance, Balance

  Sarah Turnbull (2011). “Almost French”, p.21, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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

  John Dewey

  Growing Up, Eye, Color

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Travis Kalanick

  Nice, Iphone, Phones

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• I think you are born chic. You cannot be chic. It is something you cannot learn.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Learning, Thinking, Chic

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• The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Black, Dresses, Zenith

  "On The Little Black Dress" by Andre Leon Talley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2013.

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• Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

  Samuel Johnson

  Manners, Mark, Breeding

  Samuel Johnson (1807). “Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.105

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• [Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life. Because I do believe in God's creative power in having brought it all into being in the first place, I find that studying the natural world is an opportunity to observe the majesty, the elegance, the intricacy of God's creation.

  Richard Dawkins

  Wall, Believe, Opportunity

  Source: inters.org

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• Perfume puts the finishing touch to elegance - a detail that subtly underscores the look, an invisible extra that completes a man and a woman's personality. Without it there is something missing.

  Gianni Versace

  Men, Personality, Missing

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