Splendor Quotes

Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.

A minute moving among the patterns of beauty and the dreams of love is greater and more precious than an age filled with splendor granted by the weak to the strong.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.

It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.

Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.

Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.

I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.

So burrow in. Snuggle deep. A winter idyll of simple splendor awaits.

The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.

Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor-- Why talk of anything else?

[Warren Beatty] definitely sees 'Rules' as a comedic consequence to the American sexual puritanism that is dramatically presented in 'Splendor.'

Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.

Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall.

Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity.

This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor Fades from the skies when the sun sinks to sleep.

Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.

Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.

The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone-- Portent or promise--and gives way To pale, meek Dawn.

The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.

I would do 'American Splendor' and 'About Schmidt' again in a heartbeat.

I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.

There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.

The abundance, the solidity, and the splendor of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a cheerful confidence in the soundness of its method.

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth; The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth: Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam, Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.

If then, at this great distance, our human vision can discern that sight, why, pray, are we to think that the divine splendor of the stars can be cast into darkness?

Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast each with a splendor which man in all his vileness cannot set aside; each with an excellence!

God will restore his planet and his children to their Garden of Eden splendor. It'll be perfect. Perfect in grandeur. Perfect in righteousness. Perfect in harmony.

I think beauty is the splendor of truth, so if the people I portray think they're beautiful, they're beautiful. I don't make them that way.

My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.

Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.

When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through the sky, hiding for a little time, the splendor of the Sun.

She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.

[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.

Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.

The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So when a banker fails, he fails in splendor.

Living with love for all humankind and worshiping nature’s immense beauty cures heartache and restores bliss. Respecting the splendor of nature awakens us to the beauty inscribing our own humanity.

Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.

Beware ! Heart is too small to feel happy but soul is too big to take glory

À l'aurore, armés d'une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides Villes.

Hello winter! My heart is warm and ready to enjoy your cool loving touch of beauty and splendor.

I have learned to find happiness not by possessing wealth and splendor but by giving it away for mankind.

Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.

Butterflies don't know their wings' Colors, but others see their Splendor.