Christian Dior
Fashion Designer
"Individuality will always be one of the conditions of real elegance"
Elegance quotes
Elegance
120 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Christian Dior
Fashion Designer
"Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show."
Audrey Hepburn
Actress, Humanitarian
"Elegance is the only beauty that never fades."
Yves Saint Laurent
Fashion Designer
"Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance."
George Sand
Novelist, Memoirist
"The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle."
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"Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation."
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"Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal."
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"Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside."
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"Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others."
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"Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity."
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"Elegance is refusal."
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"Modesty is the highest elegance"
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"simplicity is the key of elegance"
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"Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun."
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"Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury."
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"Elegance is inferior to virtue."
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"Death is the only real elegance."
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"Throw out and keep throwing out. Elegance means elimination."
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"Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant."
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"It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed."
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"Elegance has nothing to do with fashion."
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"Self-command is the main elegance."
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"Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth."
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"It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage."
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"Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners."
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