Glitter Quotes
194 quotes by 169 authors
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
— Ansel Adams
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of…
— Joseph Addison
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred…
— Aeschylus
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
— William Blake
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
— Edmund Burke
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When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak…
— Piers Anthony
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It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line.
— George S. Patton
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A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.
— Winston Churchill
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He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their…
— Theodore Dreiser
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If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the…
— Martin Luther
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He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I brake for birds. I rock a lot of polka dots. I have touched glitter in the last 24 hours. I spend my entire day…
— Zooey Deschanel
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Money glitters, beauty sparkles, and intelligence shines.
— Adolf Hitler
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The kid come in at a strange angle, made the notes glitter like crystal.
— Esi Edugyan
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What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all…
— Helen Keller
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The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of the blood in my head…
— David Foster Wallace
Who Wrote These Glitter Quotes
169 authors contributed a total of 194 Glitter Quotes, led by these top contributors: