Graces Quotes

145 quotes by 121 authors

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no… — Arthur Helps
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. — Matthew Henry
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces,… — Aldous Huxley
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. — Og Mandino
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed… — Mother Teresa
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. — Voltaire
How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are… — Charles Dickens
I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. — Yann Martel
To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath… — Thomas Merton
Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy. — William Shakespeare
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter. — William Shakespeare
A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon,… — Michael Ondaatje
I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing… — Louise Penny
...even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I… — Jeannette Walls
Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house… — John Steinbeck
Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life? — Ann Voskamp
Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach. — Alexander Pope
He does not ask much of us, merely a thought of Him from time to time, a little act of adoration, sometimes to ask for… — Brother Lawrence
I don't know who it is who lives or dies, who rests or wakes, but it is your heart that distributes all the graces of… — Pablo Neruda

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