Graceful Quotes

208 quotes by 176 authors

If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar. — Langdon Elwyn Mitchell
There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful,… — Monica Edwards
They could never make me hate you. Even though what you was doing wasn't tasteful.. Even though you out here looking so ungrateful.. I'm a… — Nicki Minaj
On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I… — Niccolo Paganini
Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks. — Jennifer Shahade
He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound… — John Dryden
It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is… — Iris Murdoch
Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union… — John Milton
The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I was called a bookish child. Mother sent me to a ballet teacher in Cincinnati when I was nine years old. I guess I was… — Vera-Ellen
I had the honor to meet Geraldine Ferraro on a few occasions over the years at the DNC and what struck me was how she… — Adrienne Maloof
True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park.… — Frank Lloyd Wright
A true diva is graceful, and talented, and strong, and fearless and brave and someone with humility. — Beyonce Knowles
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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment. — Prince Philip
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's… — John Dryden
Sometimes people are very worried about dying. There is no need to be afraid. when the moment of your dying comes, you will be given… — John O'Donohue
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on… — Socrates
The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little… — William Hazlitt
... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it… — H.G. Wells

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