68 Elegance Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Paulo Coelho

The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance. Paul Washer

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be. Paulo Coelho

Beautiful Human Being Simplicity Will Has-Been Superfluous Posture More Simpler Concentration Discarded Been Discovers Human Achieved Being Sober Elegance

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. Coco Chanel

Consist Dress Putting New Does Elegance

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. Yves Saint Laurent

Snobbery Confuse Must Never Elegance

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

You Yourself Speak Defined Solely Carry Wear Read How Elegance

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. Coco Chanel

Future Those Possession Adolescence Taken Escaped Just Who Elegance Prerogative

True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind. Isabella Rossellini

Me Mind Independent True Manifestation Elegance

When I think about fashion and elegance, I imagine a woman from the 1950s, on an airplane, with seamed stockings and a garment belt underneath, a skirt, high heels, and her hair that she's done the night before, perfectly done eyeliner, lipstick, gloves, perhaps, and all this just to sit on an airplane for a transcontinental flight. Liz Goldwyn

Fashion Woman Hair Before Sit Think Airplane High High Heels About Perfectly Perhaps She Underneath Gloves Stockings Lipstick Done Just Heels Flight Skirt Elegance Garment Her Night Belt Imagine

Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements. Wynton Marsalis

Music Broken Man Struggle Woman Heart Joy Pain Everything Statements Out About Having Absolute Songs Most Heart Broken Affirmation Blues Social Your Elegance Universal

If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance. Bruce Springsteen

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea. Craig Bruce

Beauty Nothing Bad Bad Idea Idea Elegance

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it. Diana Vreeland

You Mind Rest Only Got Real Really Elegance

Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt. Donatella Versace

Men Style Different Kinds Kinds Silk Always Different Elegance

Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it. Isabella Rossellini

Beautiful Me Women Beauty Style Submit Defined Stay Stay True More Allure True Anna Like Always Frida Chic Georgia Any Interesting Themselves Standard Who Elegance

I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.' Pete Townshend

Music Mirror Holding Society Our Philosophically Something Rather Spiritually Felt Audience Rock Rock And Roll Were Up Reflecting Reflective Than Roll Just Them Pop Pop Music Elegance

I am from the planet of elegance. Ron Carter

Am Planet Elegance

The idea of elegance and aristocratic indulgence of an ocean cruise was born out of the image of the rich men and women who ruled the British Empire slowly sailing to India and the Far East while sipping gin and tonic on deck - served by men in white jackets. Adam Curtis

Women Men Men And Women Ocean Rich White Ruled East Out India Gin Born Slowly Cruise Aristocratic Idea Empire Indulgence Sailing Sipping Jackets While Deck Far Far East Who Elegance Served Image Tonic British British Empire

I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date. Alice Temperley

Fashion Woman Think Date She Always Elegance

Riding clothes are ageless and timeless, and I love to incorporate that comfort and elegance in my life. Charlotte Casiraghi

Life Love My Life Clothes Comfort Timeless Ageless Elegance Riding Incorporate

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth; they are not playing with the inner character. Christian Louboutin

Character Wealth Men Shoes About Elegance Inner Playing

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