Marvellous Quotes · Page 2

I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?

— Anonymous

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

— Moliere

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

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

It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions…

— J. Reuben Clark

Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the…

— Frederic Chopin

My massage was marvellous. I feel really relaxed. And my masseur, Harold :You can't have a masseur called Harold. It's like having…

— Victoria Wood

...we need to fall, and we need to be aware of it; for if we did not fall, we should not know…

— Julian of Norwich

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as…

— Francesca Annis

You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry,…

— Ian Hislop

The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they…

— Anthony Trollope

[Dean Martin ] had this really wonderful rich, authentic, distinct vocal style. His humour in movies [and] the self-deprecation and the coolness…

— Michael Buble

The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence,…

— David Hume

I was composing before I realised I was a composer. It came more or less naturally. There were a couple of old…

— Richard Meale

“Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is…

— Anonymous

Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites…

— John Stott

Sometimes I am a little unkind to all my many friends in education ... by saying that from the time it learns…

— Hermann Bondi

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out…

— Charles Caleb Colton

All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine…

— John Calvin

It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.

— Dinah Sheridan

The club [Real Madrid] has a fantastic set-up with marvellous people. The atmosphere at training is perfect - it's just wonderful

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

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

— E. M. Forster

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world.

— John Dominic Crossan

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

— Paul Twitchell

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

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

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

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