Gracious

Famous quotes containing the word gracious:

“My gracious silence, hail!
Wouldst thou have laughed had I come coffined home,
That weep’st to see me triumph?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“What matter though numb nightmare ride on top
And blood and mire the sensitive body stain?
What matter? Heave no sigh, let no tear drop,
A greater, a more gracious time has gone....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Make gracious attempts at sanctifying Jenny,
Supply cosmetics for the ordering of her frame,
Think of her as Leda, as a goddess,
Emptying a smile on Redkey, Indiana.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)