Graces

Grâces

... Grâces (Breton Gras-Gwengamp) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in north-western France. ...

Famous quotes containing the word graces:

    As for the graces of expression, a great thought is never found in a mean dress; but ... the nine Muses and the three Graces will have conspired to clothe it in fit phrase. Its education has always been liberal, and its implied wit can endow a college.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    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 (1791–1872)

    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 (b. 1908)