Joseph Addison Quotes

Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show.

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

True refinement seeks simplicity.

To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.

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

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

I don't like a lot of frills and fusses.

I've always liked simplicity.

I have never been one for the over-the-top.

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

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

I've always gone for the more understated look.

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.

...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

The best style is the style you don't notice.

There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.

The highest Beauty should be plain set.

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

The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style - all mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

Acknowledge the elegance of simplicity.

Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

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