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the Graces

«Sacrifice to the Graces.»
«I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.»
«I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me»
Author: Jane Rule (Critic, Novelist) | About: Being a Woman, Men | Keywords: height, outraged, the Graces
«Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces»
Author: William Gurnall | About: Humility | Keywords: the Graces, veil
«I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.»
«It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.»
«For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.»
«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 or slow to do the humble work.»
«I know nothing, except what everyone knows ? if there when Graces dances, I should dance.»
«One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.»

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