William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a moment, after which all was over. I shall never forget the comic look of despair he cast upon the other five over-occupied shells. I asked him how he felt. 'Profoundly grateful,' he said, 'as if I had swallowed a small baby.'

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Baby, Grateful, Grace

• A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Flower, Heaven, Grace

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1851). “The History of Pendennis, His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy”, p.153

• It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the truth I find there.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Beautiful, Reading, Grateful

• In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Grace, Faces, Form

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