Trifles themselves are elegant in him. [ Pope ]
Graceful to sight and elegant to thought. [ Young ]
Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting. [ Elijah Fenton ]
The elegant simplicity of the three percents. [ Lord Eldon ]
More elegant manners expelled this offensive style. [ Horace ]
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with an excellency of heart. [ Fielding ]
Can any thing be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The progress of elegant literature and of the fine arts is proportioned to that of the public prosperity. [ T. B. Macaulay ]
Books are loved by some merely as elegant combinations of thought; by others as a means of exercising the intellect. [ Lord Dudley ]
An elegant writer has observed, that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. [ Colton ]
The wisest woman you talk with is ignorant of something that you know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
Assertion, unsupported by fact, is nugatory; surmise and general abuse, in however elegant language, ought not to pass for proofs. [ Junius ]
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. [ Johnson ]
The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. I would have a man great in great things, and elegant in little things. [ Johnson ]
Women of the world never use harsh expressions when condemning their rivals. Like the savage, they hurl elegant arrows, ornamented with feathers of purple and azure, but with poisoned points.
The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter. [ E. H. Chapin, D.D ]
Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life. [ Watts ]