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Grace and elegance is what you need to be looked upon as a person who possesses a fine touch of finesse. However, being graceful and elegant at all times can be pretty challenging. For example, it may be almost impossible for you to be at your graceful best when commuting in a much too crowded bus. However, in spite of shortcomings, such as the one just enumerated, some people can be graceful at all time. For people like this, being graceful is sort of second nature to them, while the rest have to try that much harder. Read on to fish out for yourself famous quotations and sayings on elegance and being graceful.

Meryl Streep

What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.

Meryl Streep
Hillaire Belloc

The grace of God is courtesy.

Politeness
Hillaire Belloc
Meryl Streep

Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.

Respect Listening
Meryl Streep
Pamela Anderson

I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.

Pamela Anderson
Elie Wiesel

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

Quality Words
Elie Wiesel
Christopher Columbus

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

Purpose
Christopher Columbus
Philip Rivers

Only by God's mercy and grace. We aren't worthy, we're all sinners, but we are because of Jesus dying for us.

God Compassion
Philip Rivers
Ernest Hemingway

Courage is grace under pressure.

Courage
Ernest Hemingway
Alexander the Great

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

Men
Alexander the Great
Phil Collins

My only saving grace is that I actually collect things that nobody else is interested in.

Things
Phil Collins
Peyton List

My school has a bunch of actors and professional kids, like Chloe Grace Moretz, Odeya Rush, and Olympic gymnasts. Basically, anyone who has a job as a kid.

School Jobs
Peyton List
Chevy Chase

Live a life of grace. You'll be a better person for it, and so will your children.

Life
Chevy Chase
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Body Proverbs Truth Understanding
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.

Daughters
Elisabeth Moss
Elizabeth Debicki

I've always been a big Cate Blanchett fan. Such a wonderful role model, the way she carries herself through her profession. She has so much grace to her, and so much intelligence. I've also always been a big Katharine Hepburn fan.

Intelligence
Elizabeth Debicki
Victor Hugo

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Age Old Age
Victor Hugo
Stevie Nicks

I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers.

Stevie Nicks
Mariah Carey

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

Life Music Singing
Mariah Carey
Alexandra Daddario

Charlize Theron is perfect. She holds herself with so much poise and grace. I don't know if she looks so good because she has the best body or because she has the confidence to feel comfortable in what she's wearing.

Best Good Confidence
Alexandra Daddario

Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does she do it? That's what I want to know. Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of our female firsts, our pathbreakers, where do they find that strength?

Strength
Meryl Streep
Quincy Jones

I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.

Power
Quincy Jones
Beyonce Knowles

Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her - her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

Style
Beyonce Knowles
Blake Lively

There are lots of actresses I consider to be my icons, from Katharine Hepburn and Grace Kelly to Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep.

Blake Lively
Lou Holtz

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.

Prayer Strength
Lou Holtz
Hermann Hesse

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

World
Hermann Hesse
Matthew McConaughey

When I see grace in a woman, that's very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.

Matthew McConaughey
Matt Smith

So many more people recognise you and want to take up a moment of your time for a photo or a hello. You try to deal with it with grace and a degree of humour, because what's the alternative?

People Time
Matt Smith
Elie Wiesel

For me, every hour is grace.

Elie Wiesel
Jonathan Groff

I think about 'Will & Grace,' and I think about 'Modern Family,' and the way that being gay has become sort of middle America... in the way that they show gay people in their specific way.

Family People
Jonathan Groff
John Dryden

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

Love
John Dryden
Cole Sprouse

Part of the reason I went to college was that I wanted to fade out peacefully: show everybody I had gone through something that was quite challenging and difficult but did so with grace and poise and got an education.

Reason Education
Cole Sprouse

Make sure you are safe, and never ever put yourself in a compromising situation, but once that is checked off the list, I think it's really important for us to remember that someone needs us, and that your act of giving/helping/doing can truly become an act of grace once you get out of your head.

Meghan Markle
Billy Graham

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Age Life
Billy Graham
Marcel Proust

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

Marcel Proust
Robert Louis Stevenson

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Mind Courage Strength
Robert Louis Stevenson
Pope Francis

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

Reason Knowledge Light
Pope Francis
Victor Hugo

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Civilization Smile
Victor Hugo
Aristotle

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Life
Aristotle
Pablo Picasso

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

Work Soul
Pablo Picasso
A. R. Rahman

I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.

Music God
A. R. Rahman
George Santayana

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Courage Humbleness Religion
George Santayana
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

Work Art Heart
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dolores O'Riordan

When I got pregnant, I started singing again. It was my saving grace. I literally mean having this amazing human life, and our relationship in the sense of mother and child, redeemed my soul.

Life Soul
Dolores O'Riordan
Desmond Tutu

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

Bible God
Desmond Tutu
Saint Augustine

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

Saint Augustine
William James

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

William James

I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.

Hope
Charles Bukowski
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Beauty
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The laws of nature tell us there's a finite amount of any substance on the face of the earth, and at some point, that's going to run out. And if we're smart and we have some grace and we have some willingness about our destiny, then we will take ourselves into the renewable world.

Nature World Face
Mark Ruffalo

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

Love Sports Learning
Michel de Montaigne

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences... everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving - she's better than me.

Good Life
Angelina Jolie
Mary Steenburgen

There's a grace about the South and a toughness about it, too.

Mary Steenburgen
Anushka Sharma

My journey has been good, and by God's grace, I have not changed.

Good God
Anushka Sharma

What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace?

Farewell Sweet Sharing Time
Anonymous