“To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.”
Publilius Syrus
“Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.”
William Shakespeare
“Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.”
Isaac Newton
“Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Grant graciously what you dare not refuse”
George H. Gallup
“Realize that when you get older, you either get senile or become gracious. There's no in-between. You become senile when you think the world short-changed you, or everybody wakes up to screw you. You become gracious when you realize that you have something the world needs, and people are happy to see you when you come into the room.”
Carlos Santana
“Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.”
Jessica Mitford
