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Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) British essayist.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) British essayist.

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist.

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

François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French writer.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) German dramatist, poet and historian.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) British statesman and philosopher.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American politician.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) British essayist.