Splendour Quotes

75 quotes by 63 authors

The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one… — Vincent Van Gogh
The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. — Ayn Rand
It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment as the greatest… — David Hume
Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of… — Plotinus
A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human heart,… — Walter J. Phillips
Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living that they are… — William Hazlitt
The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being… — William Hazlitt
Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can blast the flower, Even when in most unwary hour It blooms in Fancy's bower. Age cannot Love destroy,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back… — Michelangelo
You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with -… — Boris Pasternak
Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the… — James G. Frazer
At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but… — C.S. Lewis
And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world. — J.R.R. Tolkien
The dragon is withered, His bones are now crumbled; His armour is shivered, His splendour is humbled! Though sword shall be rusted, And throne and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's… — John Keats
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's… — John Keats
I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Tis a morning pure and sweet, And a dewy splendour falls On the little flower that clings To the turrets and the walls; 'Tis a… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, IlÃºvatar chose a place for their habitation in… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetite craves highly seasoned dishes, men of a hectic, over-stimulated constitution.… — Joris-Karl Huysmans

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