Quotes About Elegance

There are three basic principles behind any well-designed product: truth, humanity, and simplicity.

It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.

If you are out to describe the truth leave elegance to the tailor.

Sometimes simplicity brings you curiosity.

Simplicity, not cleverness, can be the source of happiness.

The beauty of truth is in its simplicity.

Truth can conquer but only beauty can rule.

Beau Brummel

The elegant black-and-white ship, all 24,170 tons of it, loomed like a mountain in a dinner jacket.

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I do so think well of a man who dies with finesse.

I hurtled down a path through the middle of a park, past shrubbery so refined it was probably entitled to vote.

Three flutes of champagne in the early afternoon anchored by the weight of nine oysters.

I always try to emulate those I admire. Pamela Harriman, Coco Chanel, Wallis Simpson, Jean Harlow, Diana Vreeland.

The great jazz and jazz-influenced singers carry themselves with a certain panache and a certain elegance and, for lack of a better word, self-confidence.

I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off.

An extraordinary diva would never sit by herself.

I love the Sixties and all those iconic women, Bridget Bardot and things like that, so I tend to lean towards those sorts of things.

Working with the brand has taught me to keep it classy but also shake things up. I love that about Chanel because I get to be pretty, but I also get to ride my skateboard in Chanel.

Skating can make you feel athletic, graceful, beautiful.

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

To me, skating should look effortless even when you're doing the hardest of elements.

Skating is a very beautiful sport, and I love watching new programs.

I'm a black-diamond skier and can dance the whole night - if I find a good partner!