Air Quote by William Hazlitt

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

— William Hazlitt

“Grace is the outer reflection of a woman’s inner soul. It’s the single and unique beauty of her submission. It’s her gift to give…

— Riley Murphy

The pleasure of grace and beauty is one of life's greatest rewards and some people can provide that better than others.

— Rick Owens

Women need to remember that if nature has made them plain, grace can make them beautiful, and if nature has made them beautiful, good…

— Joshua Harris

“In the course of aesthetic experience, the perceiver may be overwhelmed by this 'mere object', overcome with emotion, altered to the very roots of…

— Wendy Steiner

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak…

— Joseph Joubert

“Grace is false, and beauty is vain. A woman who fears God—she is praised. Give to her of the fruit of her hands, and…

— Jonathan Kellerman

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

“Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.”

— Dean Koontz

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

When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately ; for either her influence on her lover is irresistible, or…

— Jean de la Bruyere

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge