Lordly Quotes
17 quotes by 17 authors
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God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
— Aeschylus
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There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols all Worn tokes,…
— Ruth Pitter
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Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
— Pindar
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Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.
— Mark Twain
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I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty that have been…
— John Muir
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O love, whose lordly hand Has bridled my desires, And raised my hunger and my thirst To dignity and pride, Let not the strong in…
— Khalil Gibran
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The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of being…
— Rumi
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There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.
— Bram Stoker
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And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead…
— Edith Wharton
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For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half…
— Walker Percy
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Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There…
— Adam Smith
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Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind that…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Nor need we power or splendour, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender, these form the wealth of home.
— Sarah J Hale
Who Wrote These Lordly Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 17 Lordly Quotes as follows: