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 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)
“Before the time I did Lysander see,
Seemed Athens as a paradise to me.
O then, what graces in my love do dwell,
That he hath turned a heaven unto a hell?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“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)