Understated Beauty Quotes

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Simplicity is a matter of taste

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

I think that a woman that is elegant herself is somebody who can dress herself easily and effortlessly.

The word "elegance" is a bit different now.

simplicity is the key of elegance

Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.

...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

All the great things are simple.

True simplicity is elegant.

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.

Nothing against Nicki Minaj - I think she's a dope lyricist, and her body is perfect, along with a dope personality. But I'm more into a woman who's not so much into the spotlight.

To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.

Artistry is to a large degree simplicity.

Simplicity not simplistic.

Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if you write a good, clean line of English, you can get under a reader's skin. The reader won't even know why, but there you are. Didion, Berger, the many others I mentioned above, and many, many poets I haven't mentioned. Writers of this calibre are the moving targets the rest of us are always chasing.

I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

Elegance thrives on exclusion.

True refinement seeks simplicity.

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

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

Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show.

Simplicity is a most complex form