Elegance Quotes - Page 4
Frederick Sommer (1984). “Sommer: Words”
Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.
Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.180, Vintage
It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.
James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.272
Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance
Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1807). “Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson”, p.199
Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?
Stephen Dunn (1999). “Riffs and Reciprocities: Prose Pairs”, p.44, W. W. Norton & Company
Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.19, Arcade Publishing
Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Red Mars”, p.233, Spectra
Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.58, Cosimo, Inc.
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.87, Penguin
