(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son, Do not weep. War is kind. — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love! — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
“Splendid . . . a novel for anyone who has a sharp eye and ear for life.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain. — Phaedrus Copy Share Image
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul! — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Those two are carved from the same tree." the queen said. By the same blade." The high king answered and offered her… — Victoria Hanley 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
“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
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You are taken, shaken, by moments when the improbability of our lives comes over you like a fever. Everything is remarkable, people,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected;… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
His mane was like a crest, mounting, then falling low. His neck was long and slender, and arched to the small, savagely… — Walter Farley Copy Share Image
An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What… — A. A. Gill 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
And yet, or just for this reason, it's so fascinating to be a woman. It's an adventure that takes such courage, a… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to… — Lucy Maud Montgomery 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
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Grant that the idea of God is the most splendid single act of the creative human imagination, and that all his multiple… — Katherine Anne Porter 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
Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“It is splendid—to be—loved! If we only—can—live up—to the thoughts—of us—by them—that love us!” — Christina Stead 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
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID! — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
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