(112 quotes found)
“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”
Albert Einstein
“Elegance is refusal.”
Coco Chanel
“Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?”
Yves Saint Laurent
“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.”
“Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.”
“Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.”
Diana Vreeland
“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony. William Henry Channing's Symphony: some background, and its appearance in an Arthur Brisbane editorial - from the 1906 collection, "Editorials From The Hearst Newspapers"”
William Ellery Channing
“To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big.”
Aristotle
“If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.”
Marcel Proust
