Splendid Quotes

...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.

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.

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ.

A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and animate our own people.

To marry and have children is the ideal life for a woman. What career could ever be as fine? To give the world splendid men and women-isn't that the noblest thing a woman could possibly do?

The Bush boom is alive and well. It's finishing up its sixth splendid year with many more years to come.

Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.

It is such a splendid sunny day and I have to go.

Professor von Mises has a splendid analytical mind and an admirable passion for liberty; but as a student of human nature he is worse than null and as a debater he is of Hyde Park standard.

Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing.

Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good.

I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard words I ever feared to say can now be said: I love you.

Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!

In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been.

Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.

This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.

No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.

It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.

Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.

Well, isn't it splendid & rather toffee?

The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, wins the splendid ultimate triumph.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.

Trails are relatively inexpensive. A splendid national network of all kinds of trails can be established at less cost than a few hundred miles of super highway.

(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.

And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding,Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West,That fearest nor sea rising, nor sky clouding,Whither away, fair rover, and what thy quest?

To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.

A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan. Splendid.

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.

Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.

Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory.