Contemplating Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

— William Hazlitt

Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Every natural action is graceful.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned…

— John Milton

I have never been graceful, never been elegant.

— Rachel Riley

Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle - these…

— Marie-Luise Gothein

Elegance is a discipline of life.

— Oscar de la Renta

Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.

— Carole Bouquet

We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.

— Janet Fitch

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson