Stately Quotes
56 quotes by 49 authors
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Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
— James Joyce
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Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch a…
— Frances Mayes
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As Jack began to climb the stairs, Fiona looked up at her new home. Five stories of stately mansion rose above her head. Heavy molding…
— Karen Hawkins
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I had always imagined Rosa Parks as a stately woman with a bold temperament, someone who could easily stand up to a busload of glowering…
— Susan Cain
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I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on, The windows and the stars illumined, one by one, The rivers of dark…
— Charles Baudelaire
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He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in…
— Neil Gaiman
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Indian democracy has often been likened to the stately progress of the elephant - ponderous in its gait and reluctant to change course, but not…
— Shashi Tharoor
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I find Suez astonishing for the first hour. It is a ditch in a desert, but a stunning one. The sensation of being hemmed in…
— Rose George
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Monsieur Puss came at last to a stately castle, the master of which was an Ogre, the richest ever known; for all the lands which…
— Charles Perrault
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Build thee more stately mansions.
— Unknown Author
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I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge.
— M E W Sherwood
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I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, considering the innumerable number of boates & Vessels,…
— John Evelyn
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There is still One whose faith in you has never wavered. And how wonderful it is that that one should be Jesus Christ! It was…
— Unknown Author
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Do you ever wonder what it would be like to visit a New Testament church service? I imagine it would be a far cry from…
— John Hagee
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Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me And…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Who Wrote These Stately Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 56 Stately Quotes, led by these top contributors: