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graceful

«All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master»
«Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge | About: Action | Keywords: appropriate, exit, exits, graceful
«Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!»
«A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality»
Author: Pindar | About: Childhood, Immortality | Keywords: graceful, honorable
«Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result»
Author: Tommy Armour (Golfer) | About: Golf | Keywords: awkward, bodily, designed, graceful
«Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.»
«In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.»
«I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.»
«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 bystanders to shine.»
«How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance»

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