Elegant Quotes

• Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.

  Gianni Versace

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Style

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

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• Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Fashion, Appreciate Beauty, Elegance

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• Fashion changes, but style endures.

  Coco Chanel

  Change, Fashion, Life Changing

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• That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

  Gianni Versace

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Blue Dress

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

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• A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

  Coco Chanel

  Beauty, Girl, Strong Women

  "The Gospel According to Coco Chanel : Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman". Book by Karen Karbo, 2009.

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• You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you cross your legs, not the label or the newest clothes from the latest collection.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Mistake, Clothes, Labels

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• Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.

  Paulo Coelho

  Effort, Elegance, Accepted

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• Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.

  Gianni Versace

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Blue Dress

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• A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Hate, Heart

  Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy (1816). “The works of Henry Fielding, esq: with an essay on his life and genius”, p.152

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

  Carolina Herrera

  Fashion, Self Esteem, Reading

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• Make the impossible possible, the possible easy, the easy elegant.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Impossible, Easy

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• To be truly elegant one should not be noticed

  Beau Brummell

  Should

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• I do think there is a completely different notion to glamour today. I think modern glamour is more effortless, easy, and real. Moreover, I think it's about constantly challenging classical ideas by bringing in unexpected and different elements; for example a long, elegant evening skirt paired with a simple t-shirt on the red carpet. I think this approach is the future.

  Roksanda Ilincic

  Real, Simple, Thinking

  "Roksanda Ilincic Sets Up Shop in London". Interview with Davina Catt, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 11, 2014.

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• What a women reads makes her more attractive and more elegant than what she wears.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Attractive

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• When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don't really understand the complexity of the problem. Then you get into the problem, and you see that it's really complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That's sort of the middle, and that's where most people stop... But the really great person will keep on going and find the key, the underlying principle of the problem - and come up with an elegant, really beautiful solution that works.

  Steve Jobs

  Beautiful, Simple, Keys

  "Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything". Book by Steven Levy, www.businessinsider.com. June 1, 2000.

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• And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject is not truth, but things like truth? Poor envious souls they are that cavil at truth's want in these natural fictions; material instruction, elegant and sententious excitation to virtue, and deflection from her contrary, being the soul, limbs, and limits of an authentical tragedy.

  George Chapman

  Soul, Tragedy, Fiction

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.178

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

  Carine Roitfeld

  Learning, Thinking, Elegance

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• Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Ignorant, May, Never Forget

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• A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

  Coco Chanel

  Coquetry, Elegant Woman

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• I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Strong, Thinking, Google

  "Startup School". Interview with Jason Kincaid, www.washingtonpost.com. October 24, 2009.

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• You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.

  Christian Dior

  Fashion, Real, Thinking

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• "We, the people." It is a very elegant beginning. But when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was not included in that "We, the people."

  Barbara Jordan

  People, September, Documents

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• God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to be rubbed into the secular community, as salt is rubbed into meat, to stop it going bad. And when society does go bad, we Christians tend to throw up our hands in pious horror and reproach the non-Christian world; but should we not rather reproach ourselves? One can hardly blame unsalted meat for going bad. It cannot do anything else. The real question to ask is: Where is the salt?

  John Stott

  Christian, Real, Hands

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