The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
. . I tell you Dain is a splendid catch. I advise you to set your hooks and reel him in.” Jessica… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it! — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh, but it was splendid the things women were doing for men all the time, thought Jane. Making them feel, perhaps sometimes… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart. — Giovanni Boccaccio Copy Share Image
Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There is an urgent need to examine old opinions and look at things from a new viewpoint. There must be an increase… — Albert Renger-Patzsch Copy Share Image
Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
It is wonderful to have great ambitions and splendid dreams as long as these ambitions and dreams are wonderful for the humanity… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course,… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state. — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“Camping has become one of my most beloved pastimes. I take a fierce delight in swinging a pak o my back or… — Anne LaBastille Copy Share Image
Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and… — Peter Cushing Copy Share Image
I'm so glad my window looks east into the sunrising- It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid. — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
