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.

In the end,
glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

English had hit upon a splendid joke. The intended to catch me or to bring me down.

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.

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.

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He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself.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.

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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

What a splendid time Woo must have had.

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.

Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.

His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.

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

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.

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.

We have it in us to be splendid.

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.

Spurts don't count. The final score makes no mention of a splendid start if the finish proves that you were an also ran.

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.

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.