Splendid Quotes

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

— William Faulkner

“be brisk, be splendid, and be public.”

— Sarah Orne Jewett

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

— George Bernard Shaw

Have a splendid night ahead.

— Samuel Peter

Splendid couple - slept with both of them.

— Maurice Bowra

“What a splendid little war!”

— John Hayes

“Many thanks to all the following splendid souls:”

— Celina Grace

It is such a splendid sunny day and I have to go.

— Sophie Scholl

Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

— Walt Whitman

Very well," Magnus said. "Let us pause for a moment and consider—Oh, you have already run off Splendid.

— Cassandra Clare

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

— Plato

Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

— Victor Hugo

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

— John Lothrop Motley

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

— Florence Nightingale

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

— John Cheever

It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them.

— Rupert Hart-Davis

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

— Khaled Hosseini

“Breathtaking, splendid, wondrous, sublime, all those words describe you, exactly as you are. You are a work of art! Enjoy your beauty!”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony…

— Voltaire

Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to…

— Thomas de Quincey

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing…

— George Bernard Shaw

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have…

— Marilynne Robinson

There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well…

— Immanuel Kant

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

My dowry is thirty-five. A year.” His brows climbed. “You’re joking.” “I would never joke about money with a notorious thief. Just…

— Shana Abe

When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought…

— Gretchen Rubin

Harry!" said Fred, elbowing Percy out of the way and bowing deeply. "Simply splendid to see you, old boy-" "Marvelous," said George,…

— J. K. Rowling

Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names…

— Anonymous

The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death,…

— Archimedes

In the hands of a determined Secretary, the Foreign Service can be a splendid instrument, staffed by knowledgeable, discreet, and energetic individuals.…

— Henry A. Kissinger

South Africa is the most beautiful place on earth. Admittedly, I am biased but when you combine the natural beauty... and the…

— Nelson Mandela

I have never heard about any perfect marriage. They say perfect marriages are made in heaven. Nobody comes back from there so…

— Rajneesh

Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth…

— Brenda Ueland

In her own special, provocative language, Tonya Bolden gives a voice to the voiceless, a name to the nameless. Revelations abound in…

— Herb Boyd

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

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there…

— Anonymous

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow