Splendid Quotes

323 quotes by 265 authors

Oh, but it was splendid the things women were doing for men all the time, thought Jane. Making them feel, perhaps sometimes by no more… — Barbara Pym
My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness. — Walt Whitman
To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,We drained a hundred jugs of wine.A splendid night it was . . . .In the… — Li Bai
What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding we are… — Carl Sagan
If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became… — Origen
Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and… — Jonny Lee Miller
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we… — William Makepeace Thackeray
The sky is the soul of all scenery. It makes the earth lovely at sunrise and splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over… — Thomas Cole
We stand, when we are young, on the sunny slope among the pines, and look across an unknown country to the mountains. There are clouds,… — Amy Carmichael
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of… — Thomas Browne
A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and Ã©lan. Splendid. — Stacy Schiff
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. — Sallust
We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of… — Marilynne Robinson
Always read with a pen in your hands, not beside you on the table, but actually in your hand, ready, armed ... Put a question… — Tim Parks
Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's… — Florence Nightingale
Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing,… — Edna Ferber
This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead… — George Bernard Shaw
Now at last I have come to see what life is, Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun, And the brave victories that seem so… — Sara Teasdale

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