Splendid Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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

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.

Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.

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.

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.

His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.

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

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.

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

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!

We have it in us to be splendid.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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