Elegance Quotes. C.N. Douglas, comp. 1917. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical

C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Elegance


Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man. Seneca.	1
Elegance is exquisite polish. Mme. Necker.	2
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.	3
Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance. Lavater.	4
Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense. Chesterfield.	5
When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home. Landor.	6
The wisest woman you talk with is ignorant of something that you know; but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance. O. W. Holmes.	7
Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate. Hazlitt.	8
Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice. Burke.	9