Delicacy Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.

— Adam Smith

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

We believe elegance can be casual. We believe gracefulness can be compatible with fits of laughter. We believe in living a colorful life

— Lilly Pulitzer

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

— Edmund Burke

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of…

— James Russell Lowell

Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty.

— Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando

beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed.

— Herman Melville

Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

— Michel de Montaigne

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

— Anonymous