Splendid Quotes

I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before.

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars!

She needed Cholly's sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In the name of Jesus.

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world.

When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.

How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.

Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.

The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects of Europe.

There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.

What a splendid time Woo must have had.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

The National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid.

The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere likeness of it, a mere reminder of it, is enough to fill a man with happiness.

Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.

So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let me be gathered in the quiet west, The sundown splendid and serene, Death.

My sleeping pill is white. It is a splendid pearl; it floats me out of myself, my stung skin as alien as a loose bolt of cloth.

His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.

Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.

Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!

Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's eyes.

The Creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite, and at the same time, the most abundant furnishings. Everything in it tells of God.

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate.

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

There is no single advantage a woman of truly enduring fascination can possess that is so splendid as speaking with a foreign accent, whatever her origin.

Very well," Magnus said. "Let us pause for a moment and consider—Oh, you have already run off Splendid.

Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.

We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.

Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.

Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid.

Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.

The picture of me is nearly finished, and I think it is magnificent. The green and blue of the dress is splendid, and the expression as Lady Macbeth holds the crown over her head is quite wonderful.

For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks.

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.