graces quotes

It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.

- Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
  Letter to his son,11 Nov.

Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb.

- George Crabbe
  The Borough, letter 2,'The Church', l.133^4.

Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Remark, May. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

Here they have no time for the fine graces of poetry, unless it freely grows in deep compulsion, like water in the well, woven into the texture of the soil in a strong pattern.

-A'Ghobhainn
  'Poem of Lewis'.