Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.
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.
My color is black. And black, if it's worn right, is a scandal.
Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?
Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.
Elegance is refusal.
Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.
Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum... they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.
Let peace and beauty reign.
Nature...does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance
Quality means conformance to requirements, not elegance.
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
The pocket square, properly contrived, finishes a man's look. With good tailoring and well chosen neckwear, the look connotes power, taste, refinement, manners. The naked pocket connotes the opposite: working class, tasteless, base, crude, ignorant.
Brevity - the sister of talent.
