Welcome to our curated collection of elegance quotes, where we delve into the essence of grace, sophistication, and refinement. Elegance is a quality that transcends mere appearance; it is an expression of character, demeanor, and style. Whether it’s in the way one carries themselves, the simplicity of their actions, or the eloquence of their words, elegance leaves an indelible mark that captivates and inspires.
Throughout history, thinkers, artists, and icons from various walks of life have contemplated and celebrated the concept of elegance. From Coco Chanel’s timeless advice on fashion to Audrey Hepburn’s embodiment of grace on and off the screen, elegance has been revered as a virtue that elevates the human experience. It’s a testament to the power of subtlety, restraint, and attention to detail in creating beauty and allure.
Below, you’ll find a collection of thought-provoking quotes that encapsulate the essence of elegance. Whether you’re seeking inspiration for your personal style, a touch of sophistication in your daily life, or simply appreciate the art of refinement, these quotes are sure to resonate. Feel free to use them to adorn your social media posts, adorn your space, or simply as reminders of the timeless allure of elegance.
You must, if it’s possible, be born with a kind of elegance. It’s part of you, of yourself. Hubert de Givenchy
Baseball loyalists cite the game’s legendary numbers – 300 wins, 500 homers, 3,000 hits – as evidence of the sport’s elegance, beauty, and gravitas. What no one mentions is how wretched and painful it is to actually watch a former star gasp and sputter his way toward a legendary number. Stephen Rodrick
Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable. Henry Petroski
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
It doesn’t matter what kind of book you write – you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance. Ruth Rendell
I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn’t date. Alice Temperley
My fancy dress costume of choice is… something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for ultimate dressing-up indulgence. Ellie Goulding
Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground. Paulo Coelho
A modern arboretum brings us that ancient forest and, with it, a changed apprehension of time, a renewed appreciation of the elegance of natural form and a renewed sense of wonder at the variety of the world we inhabit. John Burnside
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
I love that period, between the ’20s and the ’60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being. Laz Alonso
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it. Diana Vreeland
I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function. Donald Norman
The zenith of elegance in any woman’s wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement. Andre Leon Talley
It’s a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry. Cesar Romero
I myself used to do absurd things. Yes, I mean that. I had to have a laugh, and some of the things were absurd. But they could always be worn by an elegant woman; they did not negate her elegance. Elsa Schiaparelli
My mom has always just been one of those people who handle adversity and challenges, and really everything, with so much grace and elegance. I saw it all the time. Jillian Hervey
The orchid’s association in Chinese culture with such virtues as elegance, good taste, friendship, and fertility goes all the way back to Confucius himself, who was said to have a particular attachment to the flowers. Lawrence Osborne
It’s stupid to say that there’s any comfort to be had in ‘knowing your place,’ but there is a sense of reassuring escapism to something like ‘Downton Abbey.’ There’s a perceived romance and elegance that is wonderful to lose yourself in. Kate Reardon
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother. Patricia Highsmith
True icons are larger than life, unforgettable with an elegance that’s mesmerizingly timeless. Francois Nars
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
Elegance is very dangerous. It’s like TNT. A little goes a long way. Edoardo Ponti
I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence. Pierce Brosnan
If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure. Marcel Proust
I’ve always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I’ve always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the ’40s and ’50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up. Tabatha Coffey
It’s unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who’s wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you’re looking taller, shoulders back, body curved. Kareena Kapoor Khan
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
I don’t like women who follow fashion in the sense of becoming victims of it. I like women who have elegance, who have allure, who use fashion, rather than the other way around. Giorgio Armani
In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision. Lionel Messi
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
The 50s are the age of elegance. That’s kind of my intention when I get dressed: casual elegance. Laurence Fishburne
Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth; they are not playing with the inner character. Christian Louboutin
At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the people who do it. The extraordinary aesthetic of the natural world is not obvious to someone who never leaves the inner city. Appreciation of the elegance and power of physical law is an acquired taste. Margaret Geller
There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there’s also an Italian actor I admire a great deal: Alberto Sordi. Alfred Molina
The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics. Edsger Dijkstra
About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power. Sidney Altman
Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal. Diana Vreeland
There is no such thing as a natural fit between form and content. Seamless elegance would be tantamount to erasure. Stacey D’Erasmo
Milan is marvellous, picturesque, and full of elegance. Wesley Sneijder
What is elegance? Soap and water! Cecil Beaton
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
I love ‘Chaplin’; I mean I really love ‘Chaplin.’ I just think there’s a grace and an elegance that’s almost never been matched. Gary Ross
One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance of the Mac does prevent the loose ends and confusion of a less sterile environment. But it also prevents fertility. Apple’s development must come from within. Douglas Rushkoff
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. Yves Saint Laurent
The Stockholm street style is distinctive, with ensembles that exemplify the city’s understated elegance. Aslaug Magnusdottir
Elegance is inferior to virtue. Mary Shelley
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. Mary Browne
Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted Valentino to design my wedding dress. Valentino is the definition of timeless elegance. I don’t think there’s another couture house like it. Nicky Hilton
There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty. Helena Christensen
The Winter Kate-House of Harlow 1960 customer is a multi-tasker, therefore it’s important that they are able to put together an outfit with ease and elegance. Pieces that are easy to mix within their own wardrobe. Easy dressing while maintaining a well put together look. Nicole Richie
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. Coco Chanel
Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing? Yves Saint Laurent
Elegance isn’t solely defined by what you wear. It’s how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read. Carolina Herrera
Don’t get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity. Mark Hyman
Jasmine, the name of which signifies fragrance, is the emblem of delicacy and elegance. It is reared with difficulty in New England, but at the South, puts forth all its graces. Dorothea Dix
Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes. Christian Louboutin
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism. Christian Lacroix
I love to wear my own Jade Jagger ball gowns. I love their timeless elegance, of course with my own jewelry. Jade Jagger
When I work a nightclub, I dress up in evening wear. There’s a certain elegance to it all and I like that. Frank Sinatra Jr.
My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view. William Bartram
If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is! Johnny Ball
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. Benjamin Disraeli
I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I’d rather have fun. Heather Graham
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement. Abba Eban
When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it. Michio Kaku
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. Edsger Dijkstra
Elegance is elimination. Cristobal Balenciaga
I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down. Julie Burchill
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
The elegance and the quality – the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn’t make any difference to me. Kate Mulgrew
Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That’s why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a nice restaurant and pay a little bit more. It’s for the experience. Travis Kalanick
Money doesn’t buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant. Carolina Herrera
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
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
I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work. H. R. Giger
My mother and grandmother… they were my first muses. The way they dressed and carried themselves was an education in elegance. They defined the word. Christian Cota
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
The elegance of a really good screenplay, I admire it. I can’t do it. Janet Fitch
I Am She is an institution that reflects and personifies the grace, charm, and elegance of an Indian woman. Sushmita Sen
No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama’s story. But since the Inauguration, we’ve seen only the president’s present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle. Dee Dee Myers
I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions. David Suzuki
Maharani Gayatri Devi – she was elegance and simplicity personified. Kirti Kulhari
Elegance is refusal. Coco Chanel
Style has replaced elegance. Before, I believed that style is something a person embodied. But now it’s so easy to buy good style if you have the money. Nicola Formichetti
I connect fashion to other peoples’ elegance, but not my own. I don’t think I’ve ever felt elegant. I’ve felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant – I prefer it – but I can’t do it myself. I honestly think it’s some form of autistic disorder. Douglas Coupland
I am from the planet of elegance. Ron Carter
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance. Jean Genet
Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer. Philip Treacy
I learned how to deal with people with elegance from Patrick Swayze. Travis Fimmel
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
Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories – these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance. F. Sionil Jose
I’ve played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction. Natalie Dormer
I was always intrigued by the idea of bringing things together that are considered taboo or risque and bringing them together with something of high elegance and sophistication. Dita Von Teese
I always loved samurai movies, and I wanted to incorporate that whole level of elegance and just the code of the samurai to ‘Conan.’ Jason Momoa
I have so many ways I can explain the ballroom scene. But the essence of the ballroom scene would be elegance, extravagance, and fabulousness to its 100 per cent. It’s a place where you can be whoever you want to be inside of already being who you are. Mj Rodriguez
I have always admired stylishly confident women who dress with great authority. This lifelong love of elegance began with the humble wardrobe of my late grandmother Mrs. Bennie Frances Davis. Andre Leon Talley
Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea. Craig Bruce
What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration? Henri Poincare
Elegance is eternal and I add my pinch of that ingredient to what I wear. Sonu Kakkar
