Top 25 Glory Quotes of 517 - Page 13

It is not right to glory in the slain

Homer

Glory

Homer, George Herbert Palmer (1998). “The Odyssey”, p.220, Courier Corporation

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

Henry Ward Beecher

Book, Glory, Newspapers

Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.283

Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...

Helen Keller

World, Glory, Pleasure

"Three Days to See". Atlantic Monthly, January, 1933.

Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Each New Day, Chance, Glory

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.346, Harriet Beecher Stowe

All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.

Gerald R. Ford

War, Agony, Glory

United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe.

George Sand

Glory, Pipe, Smoke

The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.

Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm

Age, Glory, Disappear

No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at.

Francis Quarles

Long, Levels, Glory

Francis Quarles, Charles Edward De Coetlogon, Christopher Harvey (1778). “Emblems Divine and Moral: Together with Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man”, p.88

Ain't no glory made from being dependable.

Esi Edugyan

Glory, Made, Dependable

Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.31, Macmillan

Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: That I have reigned with your loves.

Elizabeth I

Love, Crowns, Glory

The Golden Speech, 1601, in 'The Journals of All the Parliaments During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth'... Collected by Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1682) p. 659

I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.

Charles Spurgeon

Swim, Grace, Glory

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1857). “Sermons: 1st series [-6th series].”, p.344

Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!

Charles Lamb

Waiting, Remember, Glory

There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.

Charles Caleb Colton

Thinking, Two, Glory

Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.218

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

Blaise Pascal

Glory, Sweetness

Blaise Pascal, Auguste Molinier (1905). “The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”

I would rather be on a roller coaster life going through hell and back to appreciate the glory instead of having it all at once.

Behdad Sami

Appreciate, Hell And Back, Glory

According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions.

Baruch Spinoza

Action, Glory, Educated

Mary having co-operated in our redemption with so much glory to God and so much love for us, Our Lord ordained that no one shall obtain salvation except through her intercession.

Alphonsus Liguori

Religious, Redemption, Glory

There's no glory like those who save their country.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Country, Glory

A field of glory is a field for all.

Alexander Pope

Fields, Glory

Alexander Pope, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester) (1760). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.136

They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.

A. E. Housman

Men, Glory, Lad

A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.45, Delphi Classics

Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.

William Wordsworth

Glory, Props, Infirmity

'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 2, l. 211

Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

William Wordsworth

Dream, Glory

'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 4

The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser.

Vladimir Nabokov

Rich, Glory, Articles

Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Russian Literature”, p.313, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt