It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them. — Rupert Hart-Davis Copy Share Image
The passions of the titanic struggle will finally enter upon the sleep of oblivion, and only its splendid accomplishments for the cause… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird. — Martial Copy Share Image
Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself… — Plato Copy Share Image
This was a splendid life. Splendid in its obscurity and humility, splendid in its strength and charity, splendid in its achievements. — Robert Mortimer Copy Share Image
The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down. — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
If Aristotle, Livy, and Harrington knew what a republic was, the British constitution is much more like a republic than an empire.… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Tides of History provides a splendid prism through which we may view the wider world of Victorian science. . . . Historians… — William M. Fowler Copy Share Image
We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“No, Belle needed him. He had to save her from a disastrous marriage. And then, he supposed, he'd simply marry her himself.… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
For a mile up and down the open fields before us the splendid lines of the veterans of the Army of Northern… — Rufus Dawes Copy Share Image
Clayton," she said softly, her voice threaded with tears, "when Vanessa asked about my accomplishments tonight, I forgot to mention that I… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
My sleeping pill is white. It is a splendid pearl; it floats me out of myself, my stung skin as alien as… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Mr. Crossley suddenly wondered why he was why he was worrying about the note. It was only a joke, after all. He… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
The picture of me is nearly finished, and I think it is magnificent. The green and blue of the dress is splendid,… — Ellen Terry Copy Share Image
A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image