Pomp Quotes

45 quotes by 41 authors

Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just. — William Shakespeare
Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp. — Henry Fuseli
The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er… — William Wordsworth
Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right. — William Hazlitt
Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through… — Ani DiFranco
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into oneâ€™s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to oneâ€™s… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself,… — Barack Obama
how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though… — John Milton
Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must. — William Shakespeare
The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This… — Hilary Mantel
So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against (Einstein). He does truly stand for what they most dislike,… — John Maynard Keynes
So they crucified their Messiah? Well can I believe it. That He was a Son of the Living Spirit would be naught to them, if… — H. Rider Haggard
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and ceremonies. — Bitsie Tulloch
Neoconservatism in all its pomp conceived - in the Project for a New American Century - that, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the… — Martin Jacques
What an electric thrill it sends up and down the spine, how it sets the heart racing: A Royal Romance! A Royal Wedding! The pomp… — Hamish Bowles
I am not a Starfleet commander, or T.J. Hooker. I don't live on Starship NCC-170...[some audience members say 'one'], or own a phaser. And I… — William Shatner
The pomp of funerals has more regard to the vanity of the living than the honor of the dead — FranÃ§ois De La Rochefoucauld
I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, considering the innumerable number of boates & Vessels,… — John Evelyn

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