Marvellous Quotes · Page 2

I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my…

— Anton Chekhov

We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.

— Edward Young

I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face.

— William Shakespeare

To be remembered by name for a character, with a sort of guilty joy, is... aw man, it's marvellous.

— Paterson Joseph

Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is!

— Peter Cundall

“What makes the marvellous is its peculiar way of being ordinary; what makes the ordinary is its peculiar way of being marvellous.”

— Orhan Pamuk

I'm not the new Penelope Cruz. I'm Paz Vega. There's only one Penelope, and she's marvelous.

— Paz Vega

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.

— Alberto Giacometti

Cricket. Come summer holidays here in Australia not a whole lot else seems to matter. It's good stuff... Some would even go…

— Richie Benaud

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered…

— Christopher Columbus

It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of…

— Claude Bernard

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

— James Russell Lowell

Of all celestial bodies within reach or view, as far as we can see, out to the edge, the most wonderful and…

— Lewis Thomas

because it's Spring thingS dare to do people (& not the other way round)because it 's A pril Lives lead their own…

— Anonymous

our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds…

— Malcolm Gladwell

There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life,…

— Oscar Wilde

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of…

— Gustave Moreau

[about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this…

— Nick Hornby

There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a workman to…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and…

— William Wordsworth

There might have been a hundred or a thousand life-bearing planets, had the course of evolution of the universe been a little…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

Ensor sees with his imagination, but his vision is perfectly accurate, of an almost geometric precision. He is one of the very…

— Jean Lorrain

He does things I have never seen from any other player and it really is marvellous to watch. It takes a great…

— Cristiano Ronaldo

My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude…

— Paul Twitchell

When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily…

— Paul Merton

The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

— Swami Vivekananda

Programmes like 'Who Do You Think You Are?' and 'Restoration' are marvellous.

— Geraldine James

Sunset is so marvellous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvellous error! - That it was God I had here inside my heart.

— Antonio Machado

These ball boys are marvellous. You don't even notice them. There's a left handed one over there. I noticed him earlier .

— Max Robertson

Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.

— Arthur Hugh Clough

What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?

— Jules Verne

“The horror, whatever it was, had not yet entirely spoiled that marvellous beauty.”

— Oscar Wilde

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

— E. M. Forster

How marvellous it is to enjoy Messi. No one can touch his numbers, and it is impossible for anyone to do what…

— Luis Enrique

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

— Alberto Giacometti

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

— Angela Carter

I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

— Anonymous