Character Quote by Derick

Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and…

— Baldassare Castiglione

This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that…

— Jeremy Taylor

Grace is to the body, what good manners are to the mind

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

— Friedrich Schiller

As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

— Anonymous

Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in…

— August Bournonville

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

— Joseph Joubert

Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“The radiance of dignity and grace creates a profound elegance which exists whether anyone is watching or not.”

— Susan C. Young

Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences…

— Marquis de Custine

Grace can never properly be said to exist without beauty; for it is only in the elegant proportions of beautiful forms that can be…

— Johann Joachim Winckelmann

And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson