What's a fine person, or a beauteous face,
Unless deportment gives them decent grace?
Blessed with all other requisites to please.
Some want the striking elegance of ease;
The curious eye their awkward movement tires:
They seem like puppets led about by wires. [ Churchill ]

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress. [ Lavater ]

The wisest woman you talk with is ignorant of something that you know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease. [ Addison ]

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them. [ De Quincey ]

Let the man who despises style, and says that he attends to the matter, recollect that if the lace is sold at a higher price than the noble metal, it owes its chief value to its elegance, and not to its material. [ Yriarte ]