Elegance Quotes

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. (Yves Saint-Laurent)
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. View quote
Albert Einstein
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance. View quote
Jean Genet
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it. View quote
Diana Vreeland
Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing? View quote
Yves Saint-Laurent
The endearing elegance of female friendship. View quote
Samuel Johnson
General relativity is certainly a very beautiful theory, but how does one judge the elegance of physical theories generally? View quote
Roger Penrose
Arrangement includes the putting of things in their proper places and the elegance of effect which is due to adjustments appropriate to the character of the work. Its forms of expression are these: ground plan, elevation, and perspective. ...All three come of reflexion and invention. View quote
Vitruvius
Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity. View quote
Mark Hyman, M.D.
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother. (Patricia Highsmith)
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. View quote
Robert Fitzgerald
Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often,” he grinned and pushed at her belly, "expressed in curves. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
For the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only one rag as their property, but it happens to be beautiful and pink and silk, beauty doesn't have to be separated... I have always said that you shouldn't have biases, you shouldn't have prejudices. But before that [before his trip to India, c. 1975] I'd never been able to use purple, because it was too beautiful. View quote
Robert Rauschenberg
Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine. View quote
Girolamo Savonarola
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Death is the only real elegance. View quote
Zelda Fitzgerald
In the torments of the intellect, there is a certain bearing which is to be sought in vain among those of the heart. Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety. View quote
Emil Cioran
Elegance requires that the number of defining equations be small. Five is better than ten, and one is better than five. On this score, one might facetiously say that String Theory is the ultimate epitome of elegance. With all the years that String Theory has been studied, no one has found even a single defining equation! The number at present count is zero. We know neither what the fundamental equations of the theory are nor even if it has any. (Leonard Susskind)
I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more robust (in its respect for the unknown, the epistemic humility) than the modern post-Enlightenment naïve pseudoscientific autism. Thus my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness and philistinism. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. View quote
Jane Austen
Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside. View quote
Coco Chanel
Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand. View quote
Kenneth Boulding