Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind.

-Cassini, Oleg Lolewski
  In My Own Fashion.

His true Penelope was Flaubert, He fished by obstinate isles; Observed the elegance of Circe's hair Rather than the mottoes on sundials.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, pt.1.

Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  The Pisan Cantos, no.81.

The things people had once held against her† unconventional beauty†un-American elegance, the taste for French clothes and French foodöwere suddenly no longer liabilities but assets.

-Schlesinger, Arthur M(eier),Jr
  OnJacqueline Kennedy's post-election image. AThousand Days.

Elegance isgood taste plus a dash of daring.

-Snow, Carmel
  TheWorld of Carmel Snow.