Quotes with gracious

  • God save our gracious Queen: Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?

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  • John Ray There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
    John Ray
    English naturalist (1627 - 1705)
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  • Beilby Porteus Friend to the wretch whom every friend forsakes, I woo thee, Death! Life and its joys I leave to those that prize them. Hear me, 0 gracious God! At Thy good time let Death approach; I reck not, let him but come in genuine form, not with Thy vengeance armed, too much for man to bear.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Bill Bailey God save our gracious Queen: Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?
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    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Thomas B. Aldrich Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.
    Thomas B. Aldrich
    American writer, editor (1836 - 1907)
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  • Betty Wright I've just learned that love is a very fleeting thing, so we - then we have it; we need to hold on to it but hold on to it in a gracious fashion. Not in the smothering but more so just a covering kind of love.
    Betty Wright
    American singer (1953 - 2020)
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  • Francis Bacon If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Archibald Alexander If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • E. M. Forster Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,
    And Thy pierced feet I clasp;
    Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;
    On me, with compassion fraught,
    Let Thy glances fall.
    Thy cross of agony,
    My Beloved, look on me;
    Turn me wholly unto Thee;
    Be thou whole, say openly:
    I forgive thee all.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Knute Rockne Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
    Knute Rockne
    Norwegian-American football player and coach (1888 - 1931)
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  • O. J. Simpson The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.
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  • Russell Lynes The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.
    Russell Lynes
    American editor, criticus (1910 - 1991)
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  • Joe Namath You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.
    Joe Namath
    American football quarterback and actor (1943 - )
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  • Helen Keller Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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