Quotes with graceful

  • 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.

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  • Malcolm Muggeridge Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Pindar A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
    Pindar
    Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes (522 - 443)
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  • Francis Bacon A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Louis Nizer A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee 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.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Edmund Burke Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Auguste Rodin The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • Alice Walker There is no graceful way to carry hatred.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • John Milton Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Bruno Tonioli When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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