Display Quotes

467 Display quotes by 400 unique authors

God's eternal plan has always been to display his glory not just through individuals but through a corporate body. — Mark Dever
Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing… — Peter York
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
The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability… — Ernst Gombrich
A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the… — John Cheever
Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? — Juvenal
Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from… — Juvenal
If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a… — William Cowper
And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaes a sober hue display Less bright than they, But… — Robert Southey
What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we might display, By… — Oliver Goldsmith
A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no… — Tom Robbins
I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since… — Claude Monet
Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with… — Nathanael Emmons
Go to your confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the advice that he will give… — Saint Francis de Sales
I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms. — Edgar Quinet
Was it possible that a bustling display of energy might only be a camouflage for a spiritual vacuum? The thought so impressed me that I… — Arthur Gordon Webster
Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father. — Eugene O'Neill
There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their… — Lyndon B. Johnson
So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian… — Bayard Taylor
The Gerat Bald Swamp Hedgehog of Billericay displays, in courtship, his single prickle and does impressions of Holiday Inn desk clerks. Since this means him… — Mike Harding
I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm. — Ian Mckellen
I don't think of my plays as steamy places where people display huge amounts of emotions. The feeling is underneath, which in my experience is… — David Hare
What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely interested in human… — H. L. Mencken
Courage is a terribly important value. It means you don't run away when things are tough. It means you don't turn away from a friend… — George H. W. Bush
We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds,… — Max Lucado

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