“She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.”
Henry James book The Ambassadors
The Ambassadors, book VII, ch. I.
“My style icon is none other than Grace Kelly. She was not only classy but was also a fantastic woman who had a lot of grace.”
On her favourite style icon http://www.tellychakkar.com/tv/features/tv-actresses-pick-their-favourite-style-icons-337/
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“Mourn, ye Graces and Loves, and all you whom the Graces love. My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow my lady's pet, whom she loved more than her own eyes.”
Lugete, O Veneres Cupidinesque,
Et quantum est hominum venustiorum.
Passer mortuus est meae puellae,
Passer, deliciae meae puellae.
Gaio Valerio Catullo list of poems by Catullus
III, lines 1–4
Lord Byron's translation:
Ye Cupids, droop each little head,
Nor let your wings with joy be spread:
My Lesbia's favourite bird is dead,
Whom dearer than her eyes she loved.
Carmina
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) American actress, model
On her role in Designing Women (1957)
Private Screenings interview (2005)
“He 'midst the graceful of superior grace,
And she the loveliest of the loveliest race.”
Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) English poet and man of letters
Verses to Mrs. Lowther on her Marriage.
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
2000s, 2000, "Hostility Of America to Religion" (2000)
“Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style.”
Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)
Context: So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.
“Sharon had grace and charm; she knew how to make anybody's life easier.”
Roman Polanski (1933) Polish-French film director, producer, writer, actor, and rapist
Interview in Telecran magazine (25 January 1970)
Context: I'm forced to mix with people of this industry and I can swear that is really difficult to meet people with her nature and her spirit. Generally, everybody is opportunistic here. Sharon had grace and charm; she knew how to make anybody's life easier. When somebody was busy, she was there in a discreet manner to serve you a drink or a coffee.
“His form combined in one the strength of a man and a woman's grace.”
Virginia Woolf book Orlando: A Biography
Source: Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 3
Context: The sound of the trumpets died away and Orlando stood stark naked. No human being, since the world began, has ever looked more ravishing. His form combined in one the strength of a man and a woman's grace.