Stately Quotes

56 Stately quotes by 49 unique authors

I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with… — Mark Twain
The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we got was punctuated… — Elizabeth Bear
The universe defies you to answer the following questions: What good is a high paying career if it leaves you continually stressed out and miserable?… — Ernie J Zelinski
Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark woodbine. — Julia Caroline Dorr
And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance… — Julia Caroline Dorr
String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to… — Brian Greene
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. — Samuel Johnson
I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I… — Kristin Scott Thomas
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about… — C.S. Lewis
She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled. — Joseph Heller
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily… — Francis Bacon
I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at a theater or… — Charles de Lint
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. — James Joyce
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Build thee more stately mansions. — Unknown Author

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