Elegant Quotes

Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.

The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials.

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.

I want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth.

Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

It is best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.

It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.

Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.

Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting.

For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong.

Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high.

When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

The Thickety is a sinister, magical debut with a marvelous and shocking heroine. J.A. White’s elegant writing and masterful plot kept me turning pages late into the night.

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

I'm not interested in how people dress. Of course, I recognize if somebody's elegant. But fashion doesn't interest me.

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages.

Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.

I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.

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.

It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.

I thought it was very elegant, a wonderful opening. The vegans seemed so surprised-God knows what they get to eat.

Let us be elegant or die! --Amy

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.

Elegant persuasion is when the other person thought it was their idea.

Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.

My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.

I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.

Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.

There’s nothing better than an elegant cry of despair.

My Weimaraners are perfect fashion models. Their elegant, slinky forms are covered in gray - and gray, everyone knows, goes with anything.

I like clean-cut, very proper, very elegant looks.

To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?

Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.

The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.

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.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.

It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.

My wife and I love to host wine and cheese parties. They are simple and elegant and you don't have to put a lot of effort and time into it.

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.