Pretentiously Elegant Quotes

An elegant behavior, an elegant look, an elegant word, an elegant posture, an elegant idea, they are all moonlight, mysterious and magical, calming and peaceful! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Somebody can feel elegant without being elegant. It's a personality. ~ Philip Treacy

Rose is not the prettiest flower, neither water lily or petunia nor magnolia! An elegant soul is the prettiest flower on earth! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

If fact, she mothers with such patience and grace that she's elegant, timelessly elegant. Ironically enough, one might even say that she has become forever elegant after all. ~ Bridget Asher

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

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

My mother was a very elegant woman. When a flying saucer landed on the lawn, she turned it over to see if it was Wedgwood. ~ Joan Rivers

Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting. ~ Elijah Fenton

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. ~ Henry Paulson

Was an elegant woman in a city of so many thousands of elegant women ... ~ Ann Patchett

An elegant mind wants elegant endings ~ Hanya Yanagihara

Cats are always elegant. ~ John Weitz

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same. ~ Hermann Maier

Let us be elegant or die!
Amy ~ Louisa May Alcott

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

I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless. ~ Massimo Vignelli

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

The best wisdom looks, sounds, and feels like poetry. Wisdom is elegant. ~ J. Earp

There will be no propriety in the spectacle of an elegant interior approached by a low mean entrance. ~ Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

What a women reads makes her more attractive and more elegant than what she wears. ~ Carine Roitfeld

To the degree it is efficient, a spaceship is elegant and beautiful. ~ Vanna Bonta

A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense. ~ Lord Byron

To be truly elegant one should not be noticed ~ Beau Brummell

You look very elegant today, my lord."
"I'm wounded. I strive to look elegant every day." - Tyrion & Littlefinger ~ George R R Martin

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

I always envisioned myself having a traditional and elegant wedding. ~ Ivanka Trump

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant. ~ Maya Angelou

I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation. ~ Elliott Erwitt

Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life. ~ David McCullough

My shoes are perfect for the very sexy woman who wants to be elegant. ~ Christian Louboutin

Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl may be graceful, but an elegant woman must be accomplished and well trained. It is the same with things as with persons; we talk of a graceful tree, but of an elegant house or other building. Animals may be graceful, but they cannot be elegant. The movements of a kitten or a young fawn are full of grace; but to call them "elegant" animals would be absurd. ~ Richard Whately

She is elegant rather than belle. ~ Wilfred Owen

What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant. ~ James Sanborn

C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess. ~ Brian Kernighan

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense ~ Josh Billings

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing. ~ Renee Fleming

I like clean-cut, very proper, very elegant looks. ~ Bella Thorne

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

During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois. ~ Donatella Versace

I wish I could be elegant. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe

True simplicity is elegant. ~ E.L. Konigsburg

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer. ~ Billy Wilder

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

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments. ~ William Shenstone

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working. ~ Carrie Mae Weems

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood. ~ Alexander Herzen

As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic. ~ Maureen O'Hara

Don't wear dresses that are too tight. A size number is just a number. If the fit is comfortable, it will look more elegant. ~ Tadashi Shoji

Instead of an elegant warning, you need to bring a strong deal. That's the only way you'll gain what you want. ~ Jay Park

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

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. ~ Thomas Bulfinch

This is an elegant hotel! Room service has an unlisted number. ~ Henny Youngman

We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we can only find the simple ones. ~ Hod Lipson

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice. ~ Harold E. Varmus

The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads. ~ Fred Wilson

One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr

The mission of elegance is to defeat the ugliness of rudeness with beauty and thus create a more courteous world! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all women love, would last longer in the Husband than it generally does. ~ Samuel Richardson

A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth. ~ Nick Lowe

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts. ~ Satish Kumar

Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane. ~ Diablo Cody

I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever. ~ Andrea Bocelli

Is the universe 'elegant,' as Brian Greene tells us? Not as far as I can tell, not the usual laws of particle physics, anyway. I think I might find the universal principles of String Theory most elegant - if I only knew what they were. ~ Leonard Susskind

Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have the effect of distracting them from the simpler, more fundamental truths. ~ Peter Cundill

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings. ~ Louis L'Amour

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful. ~ E.F. Schumacher

I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're making literature. ~ Edward Hirsch

The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths. ~ Christopher Hitchens

The old 7 Series, the E38, was an elegant car, an evolution of the classic BMW look. But it wasn't penetrating the luxury market as we desired. It just didn't have the presence to be noticed. ~ Chris Bangle

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. ~ Wim Wenders

Chicago - this vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, Mace-smelling boneyard of a city; an elegant rockpile monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit. ~ Hunter S. Thompson

I'm not short," Daisy muttered. "Short women are never mysterious, or elegant, or pursued by handsome men. And they're always treated like children. I refuse to be short. ~ Lisa Kleypas

Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace. ~ Christian Dior

I feel like I'm back visiting an old grandmother. She's crotchety and eccentric, but also elegant, and anyone who doesn't fall in love with her has no imagination. ~ Tony Lema

Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company. ~ Julia Ward Howe

I like to see photographs: I like to see my family. To me, when I open a basic browser, and it's that very elegant silver simple user interface, I am unhappy. I don't need elegant and silver and simple! ~ Mitchell Baker

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

Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism ... It is the Fashion to be a wit ... one must be able to conceal indecency with elegant diction; manners are everything, morals nothing. ~ James Branch Cabell

What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away. ~ Carl Sagan

A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is. ~ Leo Frankowski

Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation. ~ Barack Obama

Make the impossible possible, the possible easy, the easy elegant ... ~ Moshe Feldenkrais

She loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others. ~ Milan Kundera

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon. ~ Dustin Diamond

No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem'd polite and elegant in one age, may be accounted uncouth and barbarous in another. ~ Benjamin Martin

Those people who are scared of science or are a bit dismissive of science tend to not really understand what science really is, which is the most beautiful, most elegant and most creative way of looking at the world. ~ Dallas Campbell

To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being ... what matters is not whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position regarding it. ~ Italo Calvino

The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music. ~ Camille Saint-Saens

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. ~ Bjarne Stroustrup

... That little narrative is an example of the mathematician's art: asking simple and elegant questions about our imaginary creations, and crafting satisfying and beautiful explanations. There is really nothing else quite like this realm of pure idea; it's fascinating, it's fun, and it's free! ~ Paul Lockhart

My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious. ~ Bill Nighy

Mystics love to make things as obscure as possible, I've learned, and never use a sentence when a paragraph of riddles will do. Priests, savants, politicians, and barristers are much the same.

The ambitious believe that if you want people to think you're smart, pose as pretentiously as possible and charge a premium for confusion and wasted time. ~ William Dietrich

There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other's designs, and we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest. ~ Adam Savage

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. ~ Tyler Florence

I've always been an entertainer all my life; I come from a family of entertainers. I always made, very pretentiously, a comparison with Agatha Christie. Her inspiration was crime, and I'm sure she must have taken courses or read about crime, because it was the basis of her stories. But ultimately, it was her own fantasy. ~ Isabella Rossellini

I think Illium can take care of himself."
"Not if he keeps flirting with you."
A fine, almost elegant tendril of heat, champagne and sunshine, decadence in the light.
"Raphael's not the sharing kind. ~ Nalini Singh