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.

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.

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

She was mine.  I owned her from the hair on her head to her curl-covered cunt to those elegant feet. 

Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent nature—a mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it.

The niftiest turn of phrase the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'

“The building has all the requisites of a great aunt. She is neither very pretty nor elegant, but she has enduring qualities of character.”

“There are millions of people who think that having heard about something is the same as knowing it, and their notion of culture is a mixture of elegant lifestyle and big names.”

“What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?”