Quotes
Quotes about Race
Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil.
He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.
The three black graces, Law, Physic, and Divinity.
Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.
Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.
Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.
Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.
Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.
Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?
How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance.
Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole?
"Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire, but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the hand, the armful bigger then the arm, and to hope to stride further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and monstrous. . . . He may lift himself if God lend him His hand of special grace; he may lift himself . . . by means wholly celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous metamorphosis.
He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether with his head. [Lat., Fungino genere est; capite se totum tegit.]
'Ay,' quoth my uncle Gloucester, 'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.' And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast, Because sweet flow'rs are slow and weeds make haste.
To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.
He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear.
