Graces Quotes

145 quotes by 121 authors

There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals. — John Noble
Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one… — Mark Twain
Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone. — Janis Ian
The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule. — Patti Smith
O Mary! teach us the life of adoration! Teach us to see, as thou didst, all the mysteries and all the graces in the Eucharist;… — Peter Julian Eymard
Virgin Immaculate, perfect lover of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, we ask you to obtain for us the graces we need to become true… — Peter Julian Eymard
A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and… — Marge Piercy
Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality… — Tom Robbins
Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb. — George Crabbe
Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face,… — Callimachus
What's female beauty, but an air divine, thro' which the mind's all gentle graces shine? They, like the sun, irradiate all between; the body charms… — Neil Young
There is no doubt that God will never be wanting to us, provided that He finds in us that humility which makes us worthy of… — Ignatius Loyola
Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into… — Harold B. Lee
Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces. — Lyndon B. Johnson
Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us. — Gary Lutz
If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about… — Simon Cowell
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and… — Quentin Crisp
You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the… — Elizabeth Edwards
It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all… — Larry Hagman

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