Grave Accent/uses

Famous quotes containing the words grave and/or accent:

“... we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them ...”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)