'Splendour' broke through to new territory for me. It exposed my commitment to writing for women: my desire to recognise that they… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost centre in us… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films,… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Tis a morning pure and sweet, And a dewy splendour falls On the little flower that clings To the turrets and the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Without him (Jean-Christophe) I would never have understood the splendour of taking free andindependent action as an individual. Up until this stolen… — Sijie Dai Copy Share Image
Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetite craves highly seasoned dishes, men of a… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Architecture is, to a certain extent, a sensual gratification. It addresses itself to the eye, and affords the best scope for the… — William H. Prescott Copy Share Image
Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labour… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“O trees of life, O when are you wintering? We are not unified. We have no instincts like those of migratory birds.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The creatures with whom we share the planet and whom, in our arrogance, we wrongly patronize for being lesser forms, they are… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
I have seen the face of Jesus, Tell me not of aught beside, I have heard the voice of Jesus, All my… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
In less than seven years the vestiges of the Gothic invasion were almost obliterated, and the city appeared to resume its former… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are many images and realities of what women are, become, can be - strong, vulnerable, dogged, determined, frail, brave, courageous. The… — Jocelynne Scutt Copy Share Image
At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought,… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
