Grandeur Quotes · Page 6

On a feeling and sensitive mind a demolished forest impresses unmingled sadness, whereas its primeval grandeur must inspire anyone to immeasurable delight,…

— Ferdinand von Mueller

Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing…

— Jeanette Winterson

If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the…

— Mark Twain

I am the glorious sun, the ocean laden with pearls. Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven.

— Rumi

I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures. It is not inhibited by flourish. It is a rhetorical…

— Derek Walcott

For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and…

— Henry Louis Gates

“Tracy had never been so conscious of the sky above the earth, the dangerous clouds that gathered there, the way humans lived…

— Paul Russell

When I'm outside the cities I do feel optimistic. There is such grandeur in India and so much beauty.

— Arundhati Roy

Often, when following the trail which meanders over the hills, I pull myself up in an effort to encompass the glory and…

— Henry Miller

All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human…

— Joseph de Maistre

I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish…

— D. H. Lawrence

Of course, both [Oscar] Wilde & [Vladimir] Nabokov believe in many things, and these things emerge in their writing clearly - for…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need…

— Honore de Balzac

The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.

— Douglas MacArthur

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.

— Thomas de Quincey

It seems to me Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is huge but not overpowering. The land is rich…

— John Steinbeck

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin…

— William Shenstone

Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building,…

— Tom Clancy

There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke…

— Eric Hoffer

For theater, the fashion had to have a certain grandeur that would read on the stage while also flattering the actress. The…

— Austin Scarlett

And the prince who has relied solely on their words, without making other preparations, is ruined, for the friendship which is gained…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the…

— Charles Darwin

It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.

— Florence Welch

Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark…

— Julia Caroline Dorr

Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton