Marvellous Quotes

115 Marvellous quotes by 106 unique authors

It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man. — Marya Mannes
The unknown always passes for the marvellous. — Tacitus
Sunset is so marvellous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or… — Leonardo da Vinci
Sometimes I am a little unkind to all my many friends in education ... by saying that from the time it learns to talk every… — Hermann Bondi
My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes. — Paul Twitchell
Pat Phoenix kept that amazing sassy look. I always wonder, was that because she was thrilled with that look, and thought it looked marvellous, or… — Celia Imrie
Ensor sees with his imagination, but his vision is perfectly accurate, of an almost geometric precision. He is one of the very few who can… — Jean Lorrain
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. — Moliere
When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything. — David Hockney
I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now... — John Lydon
The club [Real Madrid] has a fantastic set-up with marvellous people. The atmosphere at training is perfect - it's just wonderful — Ruud van Nistelrooy
At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have made… — Hokusai
Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but… — A. E. Housman
I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I… — Christopher Columbus
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land. — E. M. Forster
Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or… — Steven Morrissey
The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most anonymous of meetings… — Will Self
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? — Stendhal
Of all celestial bodies within reach or view, as far as we can see, out to the edge, the most wonderful and marvellous and mysterious… — Lewis Thomas
A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the… — George Edward Woodberry
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves… — Terry Pratchett
I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet… — Antonio Machado
You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things as long as,… — Angela Carter
Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform… — Michel de Montaigne

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