The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known… — Chris Diamantopoulos Copy Share Image
Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct – but the whole… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight From the disease of conceit Whole lot of people seeing double tonight From… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
God is not only to be known in His blessed and incomprehensible being, for this is something which is reserved for His… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life . There is an awfulness and a… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue,… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“The liberty, the unalienable, indefeasible rights of men, the honor and dignity of human nature, the grandeur and glory of the public,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Mothers are the heart and soul of every life they touch. In them lies the beauty, depth and grandeur of life. Cherish… — Jane Clayson Johnson Copy Share Image
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings. — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
The key is love, the action is service, and the joy is knowing the grandeur that is God in us and in… — Dorothy Maclean Copy Share Image
