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Elegance is inferior to virtue.

— Mary Shelley

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

— Mark Hyman

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

— Carolina Herrera

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

— Edsger Dijkstra

True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind.

— Isabella Rossellini

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

— Yves Saint Laurent

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

— Virgil

I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.

— Nate Lowman

✗Opposing Perspectives

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

— Diana Vreeland

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

— Paulo Coelho