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“It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.”

Seems Cease Elegance Provision Invisibility

Author:Jean Cocteau

“The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.”

Men Natural Progress Elegance Convenience Rudeness Niceties

Book:The works of Samuel Johnson

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson

“I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.”

I Can Able Common Study Mankind Comfort Female Chosen My Time Expenses Tenderness Commerce Elegance Attainment Endearing Female Friendship

Book:The history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia, a tale

Source: The history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia, a tale

“I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.”

Men Writing Littles Book Funny Names Identity Humorous Rings Silly Pope Elegance Little Man Shelley Appropriateness Chaucer Silly Little Ribald

Author:James Joyce

“The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect.”

Lines Economy Effects Simplicity Shops Elegance Tourists Austerity

Book:The Stones of Florence

Source: The Stones of Florence

“I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.”

May Ideas Science Interest Results Subjects Mathematical Association Biographies Elegance Anticipate Lively Ingenious Generalities

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“The well dressed man never stands out in a crowd; his elegance sets him apart.”

Men Wells Fashion Crowds Standing Out Elegance Well Dressed

Author:Oscar de la Renta

“I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.”

Way Pieces Wise Periods My Favorite Eras Elegance

Author:Laz Alonso

“My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you're beauty and elegance.”

Compliment Immense Timeless Elegance Lace My Love For You Ageless

Author:Rod Stewart