💬 SenQuotes.com

Splendid Quotes

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.
Authors on Splendid Quotes: Immanuel Kant Clive Barker Herbert Kaufman Soren Kierkegaard Aesop James M. Barrie Victor Hugo Elbert Hubbard Lord Chesterfield Gene Weingarten Neal A. Maxwell Bob Dylan Pablo Neruda John Cheever Stephen Fry Agnes Macphail Freddie Mercury Sandra Gulland Emily Carr Lucy Maud Montgomery George Bernard Shaw Manfred von Richthofen Ansel Adams Patrick Süskind John Lothrop Motley Rupert Hart-Davis Cassandra Clare Henry James Theodor Adorno Elizabeth Gaskell Maria Montessori Gaylord Nelson Arthur Conan Doyle
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

7.
English had hit upon a splendid joke. The intended to catch me or to bring me down.
Manfred von Richthofen

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

11.
I like to be surrounded by splendid things.
Freddie Mercury

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.
What a splendid head, yet no brain.
Aesop

15.
It is such a splendid sunny day and I have to go.
Sophie Scholl

16.
Well, isn't it splendid & rather toffee?
Stephen Fry

17.
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 Süskind

18.
Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
Arthur Conan Doyle

19.
Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.
Charles Spurgeon

20.
I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.
Agnes Macphail

21.
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

22.
Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
Aberjhani

23.
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.
Albert Camus

24.
'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
Winston Churchill

25.
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
John Lothrop Motley

26.
The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
Pope John XXIII

27.
How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Oliver Goldsmith

28.
I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!
Thornton Wilder

29.
There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.
Elbert Hubbard

30.
He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.
Lord Chesterfield

31.
What a splendid time Woo must have had.
Emily Carr

32.
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

33.
Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
Gene Weingarten

34.
His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.
Bob Dylan

35.
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

36.
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

37.
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

38.
Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
Victor Hugo

39.
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

40.
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

41.
Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!
George Bernard Shaw

42.
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

43.
Very well," Magnus said. "Let us pause for a moment and consider—Oh, you have already run off Splendid.
Cassandra Clare

44.
It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them.
Rupert Hart-Davis

45.
... since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate.
Henry James

46.
Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid.
Elizabeth Gaskell

47.
Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling.
Joyce Carol Oates

48.
We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
Lewis Thomas

49.
Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.
Catherynne M. Valente

50.
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