1.
Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
Pablo Neruda
A blazing determination will bring about an exquisite joy.
2.
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.
Ansel Adams
3.
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.
Immanuel Kant
4.
A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.
Maria Montessori
5.
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
John Cheever
6.
A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.
Khaled Hosseini
8.
In the end,
glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
Theodor Adorno
9.
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.
Marilynne Robinson
10.
The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
12.
To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.
Clive Barker
13.
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.
Soren Kierkegaard
14.
It is such a splendid sunny day and I have to go.
Sophie Scholl
15.
What a splendid head, yet no brain.
Aesop
16.
Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.
Charles Spurgeon
17.
Well, isn't it splendid & rather toffee?
Stephen Fry
18.
He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself.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.
Patrick SĂĽskind
19.
Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
Arthur Conan Doyle
20.
Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
Aberjhani
21.
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.
Albert Camus
22.
'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
Winston Churchill
23.
I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.
Agnes Macphail
24.
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.
Gaylord Nelson
25.
I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!
Thornton Wilder
26.
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
John Lothrop Motley
27.
The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
Pope John XXIII
28.
How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Oliver Goldsmith
29.
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.
Adam Smith
30.
He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.
Lord Chesterfield
31.
There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.
Elbert Hubbard
32.
What a splendid time Woo must have had.
Emily Carr
33.
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.
John Calvin
35.
His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.
Bob Dylan
36.
For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.
Francis Bacon
37.
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
Karen Marie Moning
38.
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.
Carole Nelson Douglas
39.
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.
George Orwell
41.
To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
42.
Spurts don't count. The final score makes no mention of a splendid start if the finish proves that you were an also ran.
Herbert Kaufman
43.
What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid, Maimie,' he said.
James M. Barrie
44.
Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
Victor Hugo
45.
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!
Neal A. Maxwell
46.
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.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
47.
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.
Sandra Gulland
49.
Very well," Magnus said. "Let us pause for a moment and consider—Oh, you have already run off Splendid.
Cassandra Clare
50.
It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them.
Rupert Hart-Davis