Quotes: Elegance
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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
American sculptor and printmaker
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
German-born theoretical physicist (1879-1955)
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
French novelist, critic and essayist (1871-1922)
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
Israeli diplomat and politician (1915-2002)
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.
French fashion and theater designer
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.
American magazine editor
I am from the planet of elegance.
American jazz bassist, cellist, and composer
Elegance is inferior to virtue.