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:
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The birds their quire apply; airs, vernal airs,
Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune
The trembling leaves, while universal Pan,
Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance,
Led on th’ eternal Spring.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“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)