Splendid Quotes
323 quotes by 265 authors
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
— Theodor Adorno
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
— Thomas Browne
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The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.
— James Buchan
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
— Pablo Casals
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It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
— John Cheever
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'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
— Winston Churchill
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Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which…
— Annie Besant
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If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once…
— Thomas de Quincey
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I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you…
— George Mikes
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Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a…
— William Ralph Inge
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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or…
— Oscar Wilde
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and…
— Virginia Woolf
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"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ...…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place…
— Archimedes
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This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking...
— G. Stanley Hall
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