Jean Cocteau Quotes

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

I've never been a much of a glamour girl.

Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears - I appreciate the details.

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

I don't like to make a big splash anyway.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

I look pretty nondescript. I don't go out of my way to... I don't express my personality with my clothes, with my car or my, you know, house. I express with my personality; so as far as what I wear - I don't really care about that.

I'm not very glamorous.

Elegance is refusal.

The French like to play the intellectual card; they don't like to be over-sexy. The sexiness comes from the way they walk and hold themselves.

Make subtlety obvious.

Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.

True refinement seeks simplicity.

Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.

A well-cut dress is my personal style. I definitely like it classic; less is more. The thing I despise most is vulgarity.

The Truth never flaunted a sign.

Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.

To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.