To fall from grace is an idiom referring to a loss of status, respect, or prestige. It may also refer to:
- The biblical fall from grace, from which the idiom originated
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Famous quotes containing the words fall from, fall and/or grace:
“Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Labor was toil, distress, trouble, fatigue—an exertion both painful and compulsory. Labor was our animal condition, struggling to survive in dirt and darkness.”
—Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)
“I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Fate wings with every wish th’ afflictive dart,
Each gift of nature, and each grace of art,”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)