Splendid Quotes
323 quotes by 255 authors
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She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself,…
— Brenda Ueland
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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
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Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
— Walt Whitman
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What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid,…
— James M. Barrie
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Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk…
— Frances Mayes
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The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.
— Gretchen Rubin
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It is such a splendid sunny day and I have to go.
— Sophie Scholl
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
— C.S. Lewis
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Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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. . I tell you Dain is a splendid catch. I advise you to set your hooks and reel him in.†Jessica took a long…
— Loretta Chase
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Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard…
— Charles Bukowski
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
— William Faulkner
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Hail to St. Aegolius Our Alma Mater. Hail, our song we raise in praise of thee Long in the memory of every loyal owl Thy…
— Kathryn Lasky
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For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the…
— Robertson Davies
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Our souls were one, if you must know and never shall they be apart; with splendid dawn, your face aglow i reach for you and…
— Nicholas Sparks
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