Gracefulness Quotes

Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.

Being a 'Lady' used to be something to which all young women aspired.

The word "elegance" is a bit different now.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

I don't like the word 'ladylike.'

The more elegance the less virtue in all times and countries.

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky, climb up on the roof and dance and say, like this?

Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.

Grace is a feminine quality.

Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.

Ease is something that I think many admire in other people, in sports or whatever it may be.

Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.

I was a fitness fiasco - until I found Pilates . . . It's been the most gentle on my body I'm longer and leaner and much more graceful. I can honestly say it's changed my body - and my life.

Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water.

As an adult, I took ballet classes three times a week, and I believed it gave me better posture, a stronger body, and made me more graceful.

I swam for the county when I was 12. You wouldn't think it to look at me now, but I'm as graceful as a seal.

Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

When I see grace in a woman, that's very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.

Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl may be graceful, but an elegant woman must be accomplished and well trained. It is the same with things as with persons; we talk of a graceful tree, but of an elegant house or other building. Animals may be graceful, but they cannot be elegant. The movements of a kitten or a young fawn are full of grace; but to call them "elegant" animals would be absurd.