#elegance

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

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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

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Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal. ↗

— Diana Vreeland

#dressed #elegance #innate #nothing #refusal

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

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Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it. ↗

— Claes Oldenburg

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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

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The most pleasant and alluring curve on a woman is the smile ↗

— Treasure Stitches

#elegance #fashion #humor #beauty

I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I never appear in public with a soiled conscience, a tarnished honor, threadbare scruples, or an insult that I haven't washed away. I'm always immaculately clean, adorned with independence and frankness. I may not cut a stylish figure, but I hold my soul erect. I wear my deeds as ribbons, my wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs. ↗

— Edmond Rostand

#elegance #honour #morality #wit #men

There might be cheats or possible cheats amongst them, men who beat their wives, men with perverse instincts, greedy men, cowardly men, lying men; but the elegance of the room invested each one with a kind of aristocracy. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#cards #cheaters #elegance #men

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

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