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:
“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)
“America was too big to have been discovered all at one time. It would have been better for the graces if it had been discovered in pieces of about the size of France or Germany at a time.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“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)