Elegant Quotes - Page 15

• I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Health, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803”, p.147, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I believe there is no liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural, rational piety, than the Common Prayer of the Church of England.  And though the main of it was compiled considerably more than two hundred years ago, yet is the language of it, not only pure, but strong and elegant in the highest degree.

  John Wesley

  Strong, Prayer, Believe

  John Wesley “John Wesley's The Book of Common Prayer”, Lulu.com

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• Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Pride, Power, Men

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• It's almost scary how stylish things can look if you take the color out - how much more you see the essence of things and how much more something can appear elegant.

  Wim Wenders

  Color, Essence, Scary

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was out of favor and people didn't want that type of boot, flats, or high heels with the elegant, dainty things, it gave me much more energy.

  Manolo Blahnik

  High Heels, People, Energy

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I love regal looks on the Oscars red carpet. I just love old-Hollywood glamour. I love hair pulled back off the face, beautiful makeup...long sleeves are really elegant. The Oscars are not a place to be too flirty or fun or sexy.

  Giuliana Rancic

  Beautiful, Sexy, Fun

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

  David McCullough

  Poet, Companion, Whole Life

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• Versace was and still is about the sophisticated woman who is elegant, not afraid of her own sensuality, and not afraid to dare or take risks in life.

  Nicki Minaj

  Risk, Sophisticated, Versace

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Elegant and lucid . . . a pitch-perfect clarion call, issued not with preachy hubris but from a deep place of humility, for awakening to the greatest rewards of living . . . The Road to Character is an essential read in its entirety-Anne Lamott with a harder edge of moral philosophy, Seneca with a softer edge of spiritual sensitivity, E. F. Schumacher for perplexed moderns.

  Maria Popova

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Character

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• You always want to keep your look clean and elegant, but you don't have to do the safe black-dress route. Have some fun! Wear something colorful with a hint of sparkle.

  Mindy Kaling

  Fun, Black, Dresses

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Dont wear dresses that are too tight. A size number is just a number. If the fit is comfortable, it will look more elegant.

  Tadashi Shoji

  Numbers, Size, Dresses

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• Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl may be graceful, but an elegant woman must be accomplished and well trained. It is the same with things as with persons; we talk of a graceful tree, but of an elegant house or other building. Animals may be graceful, but they cannot be elegant. The movements of a kitten or a young fawn are full of grace; but to call them "elegant" animals would be absurd.

  Richard Whately

  Girl, Character, Animal

  Elizabeth Jane Whately, Richard Whately (1860). “A Selection of English Synonyms”, p.59

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• To the degree it is efficient, a spaceship is elegant and beautiful.

  Vanna Bonta

  Beautiful, Degrees, Spaceships

  "The Cosmos as a Poem". Essay by Vanna Bonta, 2010.

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• Sundance [festival] is all your Hollywood buds and buddies and rolling out and high-fiving and "Hell, yeah. Here comes the movie," and in Venice, it's very elegant, and respectful...It's decadence. It's such a fun way to formalize a movie that is for us a down-and-dirty, gritty movie. And to see it with the red carpet, and rolling up in a Maserati.

  David Gordon Green

  Fun, Dirty, Venice

  Source: collider.com

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• My mom was always a fan of just really elegant, sophisticated pieces. I mean we grew up in Maine, so we didn't have a lot of call for black tie or anything, but I think I definitely got that sensibility from her.

  Anna Kendrick

  Mom, Mean, Thinking

  "Q&A: Anna Kendrick on modeling, movies and music". Interview with Nicole Evatt, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. October 24, 2014.

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• Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet.

  Ashley Wagner

  Sweet, Ice, I Can

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• The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature.

  Joseph Addison

  Eye, May, Polyphemus

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• Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

  William Shenstone

  Compliment, Indirect, Deference

  William Shenstone (1764). “The Works, in Verse and Prose”, p.254

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• Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life.

  Isaac Watts

  Men, Mind, Lovely

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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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• It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and then eaten with a fork. Ladies should be particularly careful how they manage so ticklish a dainty, lest the exhibition rub off a little desirable romance.

  Charlie Day

  Food, Knives, Romance

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• On vacation, you can wear all the colorful and casual clothing that you like, but you must always be elegant.

  Christian Dior

  Vacation, Casual, Clothings

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• Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting.

  Elijah Fenton

  Dancing, Delight

  William Congreve, Elijah Fenton (1779). “The Works of the English Poets”, p.333

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• Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics. Civility reigns, voices are not raised, much goes unsaid. But just beneath the sophisticated composure are longing, loss, heartbreak. And how intensely familiar is the table itself, which made this reader suddenly understand how much of our real life takes place there. Heather A. Slomski is truly a fresh voice on the scene, and The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons is that rare thing, a new book as innovative in its design as it is compulsively readable.

  Jaimy Gordon

  Real, Book, Character

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• Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the mother's suicide, a failed relationship, the practice of ballet, a garden-each strict, exacting. And with 'a crow's sky-knowing mind,' Honum in every case transfigures emotion by way of elegant language and formal restraint. Chloe Honum is 'one astounding flame' of a poet, and I predict a long-lasting one.

  Claudia Emerson

  Mother, Suicide, Book

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