Splendid Quotes

323 quotes by 265 authors

It's such a pleasure to write down splendid wordsâ€”almost as though one were inventing them. — Rupert Hart-Davis
We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities. — James Henry Breasted
For a mile up and down the open fields before us the splendid lines of the veterans of the Army of Northern Virginia swept down… — Rufus Dawes
Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. — Arthur Conan Doyle
The young bloods of the South; sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never… — William Tecumseh Sherman
This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office. — Winston Churchill
I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd. — Virginia Woolf
In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the root of our… — Constantin Stanislavski
A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship. — W. G. Grace
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This… — Pablo Casals
A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure. — Robert Doisneau
Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will now admit that… — John Quincy Adams
Todays youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last… — Peter Cushing
My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance… — Max Beckmann
At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the Water Buffalo? is… — Ed McClanahan
People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means… — Alice Duer Miller
Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far… — Ansel Adams
It must be splendid to command millions of people in great national ventures, to lead a hundred thousand to victory in battle. But it seems… — Ludwig Boltzmann
Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success. — Dale Carnegie
The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down. — Manfred von Richthofen

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