Stately Quotes

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And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man,… — Francis Bacon
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace. — Richard Sibbes
She's like a queen, magnificently tall, with a lovely figure, a stately neck, and a face of the most delicate and finished modelling: the flow… — Walter Deverell
When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not… — Seneca the Younger
But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing… — John Milton
There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended… — William Jennings Bryan
While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of suppressed panic in… — Gwynne Dyer
Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!" — John Greenleaf Whittier
A stately pleasure-dome decree. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by the distant whistle… — Arthur C. Clarke
I can admire the solemn and stately language of worship that recognizes the greatness of God, but it will not warm my heart or express… — Charles Spurgeon
Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande — Nathaniel Dorsky
Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter''s Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind. — Katharine Weber
The foxglove, with it's stately bells Of purple, shall adorn thy dells. — David Macbeth Moir
The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the… — Herman Melville
Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadsideâ€”are the Night's Innumerable… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases… — Thomas Carlyle

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