Famous quotes containing the words goodness and/or gracious:
“The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“My gracious silence, hail!
Wouldst thou have laughed had I come coffined home,
That weep’st to see me triumph?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)