Apotheosis Quotes
14 quotes by 13 authors
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The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and morality in politics…
— Ralph Raico
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Nature's ways are wonderful and unfathomable. The grain swells in the soil, the sprout grows and flowers when the time comes and then it bears…
— Martiros Saryan
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Various accounts of Empedocle's death are given in ancient sources. His enemies said that his desire to be thought a god led him to throw…
— Empedocles
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Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!
— William McFee
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People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is…
— Roger Ebert
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Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized…
— Stephen Bayley
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An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man…
— Joseph Addison
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Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical heros of antiquity,…
— H P Lovecraft
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...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on…
— Edward Frederic Benson
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A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds…
— Joe Queenan
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The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself…
— Steven Weber
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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Who Wrote These Apotheosis Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 14 Apotheosis Quotes as follows: