Splendid Quotes

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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
In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. — Theodor Adorno
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. — Thomas Browne
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. — James Buchan
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? — Pablo Casals
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong. — John Cheever
'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. — Winston Churchill
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
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
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
Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture. — Henry Ward Beecher
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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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