Top Elegant Quotes
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
J. G. Ballard
In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
Harold Evans
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings
What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.
James Sanborn
Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.
Donna Tartt
Henry Fielding 
Helen Hayes 
Steven Cojocaru 
Henny Youngman 
Bertrand Russell 
Robert Louis Stevenson 
George Catlin 
Carl Friedrich Gauss 
Wilfred Owen 
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
J. G. Ballard 
60% of people like this quote
In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
Harold Evans
59% of people like this quote
What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.
James Sanborn
57% of people like this quote
Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.
Donna Tartt
56% of people like this quote
What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
Lyndon B. Johnson
55% of people like this quote
This is an elegant hotel! Room service has an unlisted number.
Henny Youngman
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It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.
Vivienne Westwood
55% of people like this quote
It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.
Katarina Witt
55% of people like this quote
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