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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. — Voltaire

I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop. — Rick Yancey

To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later. — Brander Matthews

I remember only images, snapshots burned into me, bleeding into each other until I no longer knew the order in which they had happen. — Laure Eve

The Graces sought some holy ground,
Whose sight should ever please;
And in their search the soul they found
Of Aristophanes. — Plato

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 no talent. — Quentin Crisp

A still heart quickens as beauty graces the foul. — A.L. Jackson

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

What graces, gifts and virtues the Holy Mass calls down. — Leonard Of Port Maurice

I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb. — George Crabbe

The more I reflect on the graces I have received, the more they astonish me and make me tremble. — Rose Philippine Duchesne

If you are to stay in the good graces of the powerful, you had best, however unobtrusively, please the servants of the powerful. — Samuel R. Delany

There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host. — Charles Lamb

At that exact moment, Nancy Grace, a CNN legal commentator who combines the nuance of a sledgehammer with the social graces of a harpy.. — Charles P. Pierce

Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces. — Henry Clay Trumbull

The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people. — Franz Grillparzer

The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Creative people depend on the generosity and graces of strangers. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

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

Of all graces, faith honours Christ the most; of all graces, Christ honours faith the most — T. B. Joshua

Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces. — Plutarch

Meekness is one of the brightest graces which can adorn the Christian character. — J.C. Ryle

Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces. — Walter Savage Landor

When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for. — Frances Trollope

Cut off from the Body into which alone the graces of Christ flow, you are deprived of the benefit of all prayers, sacrifices, and Sacraments. — Edmund Campion

The slave of the belly ponders the menu with which to celebrate the feast. The servant of God, however, thinks of the graces that may enrich him. — John Climacus

and is developed by exercise. Active use of the power entrusted to us is one of the chief means which God employs for producing the Christian graces. — Henry Drummond

Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces. — Ann Voskamp

Manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. — Og Mandino

Beauty loses its relish; the graces never. — Henry Home, Lord Kames

Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter. — Michael R. Burch

Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity. — Ernest Holmes

Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces. — J.C. Ryle

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 what matters. — Louise Penny

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. — Matthew Henry

Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces. — Aldous Huxley

Our lives and the love we share are the saving graces of that night. — Jessica Park

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out. — Solomon Burke

Humility is, of all graces , the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

Love is the queen of all the Christain graces. — Arthur W. Pink

From all the graces of my homeland
I chose only your savage heart. — Pablo Neruda

The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God. — Jonathan Edwards

The Holy Spirit does not act except through the Immaculata, his spouse. Hence, she is the Mediatrix of all the graces of the Holy Spirit. — Michael Gaitley

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue. — Benjamin Franklin

Experience is something you have to go through yourself to be able to fully described the act. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Of all this world's beauty and miracles, brilliance and simplicity-of all nature's graces-children are truly the most remarkable. — Chip St. Clair

I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power. — Ted Cruz

Everyone said they were witches.
I desperately wanted to believe it. — Laure Eve

The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds

Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable. — Charles Caleb Colton

The fantastic graces of Chivalry lay upon the surface of life,but beneath it was a half-savage population,fierce and animal,with little ruth or mercy. — Arthur Conan Doyle

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

But we progress, Your Graces. Inexorably we progress. Albeit at the blind man's speed, as we tap-tap along in the dark. — John Le Carre

The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children — George Will

I tried to do that very difficult thing, imagine old people young again and invested with the graces of youth. But — Charles Dickens

If colons and semicolons give themselves airs and graces, at least they also confer airs and graces that the language would be lost without. — Lynne Truss

Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has His hands full of graces, and He is ready to bestow them on anyone who asks for them — Peter Of Alcantara

Write and your experiences with others. Never underestimate your writings. It can bring hope and inspiration to many people. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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 the daybreak in my breast. — Pablo Neruda

The Rosary is a treasure of graces — Pope Paul V

Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone. — Janis Ian

The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Done without love, any congress between man and woman degrades the creative intelligence that graces your humanity. — Janny Wurts

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

Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them. — Kathryn Hulme