We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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.
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Jasmine, the name of which signifies fragrance, is the emblem of delicacy and elegance. It is reared with difficulty in New England, but at the South, puts forth all its graces.
What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
It's stupid to say that there's any comfort to be had in 'knowing your place,' but there is a sense of reassuring escapism to something like 'Downton Abbey.' There's a perceived romance and elegance that is wonderful to lose yourself in.
Elegance is refusal.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.
Hip-hop saved me. It gave me permission to use language in a certain way. It validated my community and my friends. It gave our slang a certain elegance.
I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.
Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.
I remember touring the Medici palace in Florence when I was younger and I was entranced by the beauty and elegance of every space.
I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
Personally, my interest in social history ends around 1959, by which time I was an adolescent. I've always attributed this to my particular sensibilities. I like formality and elegance, and I'm fundamentally conservative.
Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler?
There's a certain beauty and majesty to Wimbledon. The elegance, the way the grass looks on TV.
