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Sublime Quotes by Alexandre Dumas
- For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by…
- I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child of earth, what…
- in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language…
- There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who…
More Sublime Quotes
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and… — Honore de Balzac
- Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. — Jean Baudrillard
- There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central… — Sam Abell
- For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia. — Sam Abell
- All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher. — Lucretius
- All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- What a sublime idea of the infinite might of the great Architect, the Cause of all causes, the Father of all fathers,… — August Weismann
- Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime,… — Saint Augustine
- Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from… — Walter Scott