Natural Grace Quotes

Beauty is the gift of God

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.

Beauty has long since disappeared. It has slipped beneath the surface of the noise, the noise of words, sunk deep as Atlantis. The only thing left of it is the word, whose meaning loses clarity from year to year.

The naive which is simultaneously beautiful, poetic, and idealistic, must be both intention and instinct. The essence of intention, in this sense, is freedom. Consciousness is far from intention. There is a certain enamoured contemplation of one's own naturalness or silliness which itself is unspeakably silly. Intention does not necessarily require a profound calculation or plan.

I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect.

Beauty is a natural superiority.

I don't take off my nail polish when I go home because I'm too lazy, and they're fine with it. Maybe the checkout at the grocery store's not so great with it, but they're fine with it. The distrust, the phobias, those are learned, those are taught. But the natural grace is to understand and to love.

Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . .

But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

You must, if it's possible, be born with a kind of elegance. It's part of you, of yourself.

A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.

With little here to do or see Of things that in the great world be, Sweet Daisy! oft I talk to thee For thou art worthy, Thou unassuming commonplace Of Nature, with that homely face, And yet with something of a grace Which love makes for thee!

I think you are born chic. You cannot be chic. It is something you cannot learn.

There is nothing more attractive than a person who radiates simple unaffected humanity.

A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.

How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of affectation and free from all pretense.

Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.

There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker.

I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.

The only man who could make a love scene comfortable was Clark Gable. He was born graceful, he knew what to do with his feet and when he took hold of you, there was no fooling around.