Splendid Quotes
Splendid Quote of the day
Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth the crystal-like ether, in the other the liquid gold.
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.
The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure.
Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.
I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.
Christianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one of the most splendid blossoms that can grow in the soul of a good man.
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.
We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.
My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.
A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care!
A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
English had hit upon a splendid joke. The intended to catch me or to bring me down.
In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son, Do not weep. War is kind.
A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.
We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.
Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.
I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.
... an ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.
The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.
Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid health.
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.
Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.
Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.
To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.
...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.
