Splendid Quotes

Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.

Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.

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.

A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.

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.

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.

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

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

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

Well, isn't it splendid & rather toffee?

He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his own existence and found it splendid.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

What a splendid time Woo must have had.

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.

Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.

His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.

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.

Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!

Splendid,' Abbé Patin said with a sheepish grin, pulling up alongside. 'There is nothing quite so thrilling as riding in fear of one's life.

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.

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

It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them.

... since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate.

Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid.

Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling.

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

We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

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

You have splendid breasts, lass," he purred, cupping the plump mounds. "Splendid," he repeated stupidly, and she almost laughed. Men loved breasts any shape or form, they just loved them. -Drustan to Gwen

The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.