It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.
Jack Cade

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
W. Somerset Maugham

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
Anthony Doerr

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
Victor Hugo

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Karl Barth

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
John Dryden

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
Juan Ramon Jimenez

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
Petrarch

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
Eugene O'Neill

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
Charles Caleb Colton

Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.
Samuel Rutherford

Mr Johnson should remember that I am not just anyone and that he is only president of the United States by the grace of my son's action.
Marguerite Oswald

My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
Rachel Bilson

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
James Thurber

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.
Gerrit Smith

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.
Archibald Alexander

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
John Donne

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.
Georges Rouault